Before now, the Ekitis were revered for producing one professor in every family. But nowadays, indigenes, government, parents, academicians and other stakeholders bemoan the falling standard of education in the state known as the fountain of knowledge. In this report, BOSE ADELAJA examines the problem of education in Ekiti and efforts made by past and present administrations in returning the state to its past glory.

I always remind people that in every bad thing, there is some elements of good in it, and in every good thing, there is some elements of bad too. What Abacha did was what Napoleon Bonaparte could not do, because he really felt it and he was in total sympathy with the people of the Niger-Delta.

Well, they are at liberty to call for the review but they should leave whatever that has been agreed upon concerning the Niger- Delta and the oil producing states. The portion that is being given to us as 13 per cent was not something that came by accident.

The 13 per cent that we succeeded in getting couldn’t have come if not for the approval of the late military titan, Gen. Sani Abacha and it was fought for by the oil-bearing communities. We started by taking into cognizance that the oil-bearing communities have been shortchanged because when the country’s economic life was agriculture, the principles of derivation then was 50:50.

ABA, the commercial capital of Abia State, popularly known as Enyimba City, was in the past not only the pride of Ndigbo but the former Eastern Region because of its strategic commercial and industrial position in the nation.

How will Nigerian politics be in a cash light or cash less economy where carrying of raw cash in ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags is the order of the day?

FOR the oil communities in the Niger-Delta, there is a misconception by both the Northern governors and Niger-Delta on what the 13 per cent derivation is all about. While the northern governors see it as booty for their southern counterparts and want it reduced, some South-south governors, indeed, think it is booty for them and have hijacked the fund from the oil communities, which it is meant for.

AS the London 2012 Olympics approaches swiftly, President of Taekwondo Federation of Nigeria, Dr Jonathan Nnaji is optimistic that the country’s two representatives in the sport, Chika Chukwumerije and Isa Mohammed would mine gold at the Games.

MOTORISTS and commuters plying the Lagos – Badagry and Oshodi/Apapa expressways, have on several occasions, been subjected to untold hardship occasioned by perennial traffic gridlock that has become a recurring decimal along the ever-busy road.

THE Lagos State commissioner for Transportation, Mr. KayodeOpeifa, said he had nothing more to say about the menace of tanker drivers along the Apapa -Oshodi expressway.

THERE are two traditional African sayings that “a man that lives near the river will not use spit to wash his hands” and “a man cannot be in the river and be looking for fish to eat”. Both mean the same thing, which is that one cannot be suffering in the midst of plenty.

In their resolve to restore the economic and political hegemony of the zone, the South West leaders, few days ago organized a legislative summit.

Over 2000 Rivers and non-Rivers indigenes have so far benefited from the Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi Special Overseas scholarship programme, a scheme designed to boost human capital development in Rivers State and the country.

By Moses Nosike President General, Aka Ikenga,  a group of Igbo professionals, Consultant Dental Surgeon/MD, Belmont Dental Clinic; Chairman, Faculty of General Dental Practice and National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Dr. Sylvan O. Ebigwei, asks South-Easterners, in the face of Boko Haram killings,  start developing their homes, villages and communities for employment opportunities and […]

DELTA STATE governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan was recently at the Pan African University to deliver a lecture. Following the lecture the Governor spoke to newsmen on some topical national issues including the clamour for a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, contentions over derivation among other issues.