FEAR of the known pervades any mention of Chibok. It is gripping, unspoken fear, with expected consequences that when I piled inside a bus for the 130-kilometre drive to uncertainty, the only thing I knew was that death could be a part of the trip.

HE would have the status of a permanent secretary in the public service. The local level of government should be the affair of the Regional Government. It means that all the 774 local government councils would be inherited by the Region into which they fall.

Nigeria has been in the news for the past couples of weeks. We hosted the World Economic Forum Africa (WEFA) May 7 – 9, 2014 in the aftermath of the expansion of the activities of International Terrorist Group called Boko Haram. Let me hereby repeat my President’s gratitude to the one thousand one hundred people from seventy countries who participated at WEFA. We appreciate the confidence reposed in Nigeria by their participation.

PREFACE: I wrote To Save Nigeria Let’s Talk in 2002 when I had monitored our return to Civilian Rule every week in the Sunday Vanguard for three years. In 2005 when the Constitutional Reform Conference was held under the presidency of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, I produced 500 copies of the booklet for distribution to the delegates.

On May 4, 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader Boko Haram, proclaimed: “I am going to marry out any woman who is twelve years old, and if she is younger, I will marry her out at the age of nine. I am the one who captured all those girls and will sell all of them. Slavery is allowed in my religion and I shall capture people and make them slaves. We are on our way to Abuja and we shall also visit the South

The Advance Automatic Finger Identification System, AAFIS, is what the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is deploying to ensure that it gets a ‘CLEAN’ Voter Register, VR. But the process is slow and painstaking. Yet, the Commission is going ahead because it remains its surest way of providing Nigerians with a Valid Voter Register, VVR

Charity Uzoechima, the 26-year-old girl who converted to Islam and kept in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, for “safety” for three months, is in the news again.

I documented it in a book I wrote during Abacha regime, entitled, ‘Let me have the bones’. I went to a party in Ikoyi, and there was this man who came with his dog to the party. We were eating and drinking, the man would feed his dog with chunks of chicken. There was this little boy in rags who was begging and people were driving him away. At the end of the day, the boy could not stand it again and he said, ‘Baba, I am not even asking for chicken, just give me the bones’. I wrote it in Vanguard.

Thirty-one year old Ade Ogunbowale, a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from one of the universities in the country shared his success story as a scavenger with Ebun Sessou in a 30-minute interactive session in Oko-Afa area of Isolo, Lagos State recently.

As many unemployed Nigerians come face to face with the reality of high rate of unemployment, a few others have considered waste as a veritable source of income generation and employment and so, rather than gnashing their teeth, they resort to making a living out of waste managment.