UPON his return from exile in 1982, the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu was asked his reaction, looking back at the civil war.

Since the return to democratic rule in 1999, successive governments have come and gone but agriculture, which remains the main stay of the state’s economy still needs attention.

AFTER 20 years of democracy, Abia State in all sincerity has not fared well in the areas of development. Simply put, good governance has eluded the state. Put on the same scale with other states in the South-East zone, Abia clearly comes last. The dearth of infrastructure across the state is glaring despite pretences by the leaders.

AS Governor Aminu Bello Masari takes his oath of office for his second term today, security, education and healthcare are top priorities of residents of the state.

TO improve on the fortunes of Bauchi State, the residents are appealing to the Governor-elect, Senator Bala Mohammed to prioritise education of children and youths as well as  empowerment of women in the state.

Stakeholders want the state government to fight environmental pollution occasioned by oil exploitation, provide security, protect the environment and develop other sources of revenue in addition to oil and gas.

Pat Utomi told sordid tales about the weird and fetish lifestyles of our politicians and how those lifestyles negatively affect our own lives. Today, he takes to the cleaners religious leaders and institutions, intellectuals, business communities, student bodies, and young people who stand aside and look and do nothing while criminals in the cloak of politicians have field days.

Prejudice!  Wicked prejudice!  The consequence of the wickedness of prejudice is the present spate of criminal activities passed off as terrorism in some parts of the north of Nigeria.

Several years back Nigerians were referred to as the happiest people on planet earth. 

As the nation celebrates the 20th anniversary of democracy on Wednesday, May 29, Dr Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, the Director, Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training, Zango Shanu, Zaria, whose centre carried out research on banditry, kidnapping and killings in Zamfara and Katsina states, speaks on the findings.

Pat Utomi unmasked the criminals who seize power through hijacking of political parties. He identified them as “three gangs of actors” advocating the need for patriots to boldly confront these criminals and save the people and the country which they have almost completely ruined.

HOW to create a new moral tribe of citizens with a social and political consciousness of the freeborn, in human solidarity and encouraging of the work ethic, the spirit of enterprise and the principle of subsidiarity or the decentralization of authority to levels closest to the people would be a two-decade enterprise I would persevere on.

Keynote Address by His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo At the 2019 Synod of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Oleh Diocese Isoko, Delta State, May 18, 2019

THE activist in me came alive as soon as I got into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN. As a precocious 17-year old, I lived that adage that if at 18 you were not communist, something was wrong with your heart but if at 40 you still are, something was wrong with your head. I refused to be a Marxist even at 17, thanks to the impact of those Dominican priests, but I was a passionate fighter against injustice. Such was the commitment that I missed celebrating my 18th birthday.

WITH the buy-in of the Asagba, I began direct conversations with people like Fortune Ebie and Felix Osifo, the founder of Osiquip. Then I moved to Ralph Uwechue. I was glad that Chief Uwechue told the story himself at the World Igbo Congress meeting in Orlando Florida in 2012.