I have just watched a video by Shuaibu Moni, a Boko Haram commander who was reported by the media to have been freed in exchange for some 82 kidnapped Chibok girls in a deal allegedly brokered by the Swedish government.

Many fair minded persons, recoiled  at Ebere Uzoukwa’s rant on Abia, as if they had seen  a snake because, that story was a piece of snow job, that degenerated from the sublime to the ridiculous. It was a metaphor for media racketeering and a manual of uncivil war of words. Baltasar Gracian; the Spanish prose writer and Jesuit priest in his famous homily to media practitioners, once pontificated that “ a single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.” And integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on time tested values rather than on personal gains.

Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah does not need any more introductions. By a dint of hard work, determination, focus and the God factor, he has grown to become a household name in Nigeria, particularly in critical sectors of the Nigerian economy. From oil & gas to sports, to politics and then charity, he traverses the nation like a colossus in constant search of where and how to improve humanity.

In finding permanent solutions to the root causes of the herdsmen-farmers clashes in some parts of the country, this administration has indeed shown its commitment to ending the impunity of violence

The second wave of democratization in Africa, beginning in the 80s, and the gradual establishment of democracy as the new normal in the continent brought much hope and excitement. As we have seen in the recent intervention by the military in Zimbabwe, coup d’etats have become unpopular and unacceptable in the entire continent in deference perhaps to dominant global politics.

Many more acts of conscionable sacrifice by political elites in Nigeria, as exemplified by Saraki, would go a long way to make the country a better place

You must understand that the system has been rigged in favour of a political elite that care less about the next generation!

Many bank directors were notorious for contributing to a greater percentage of non-performing loans which contributed to the collapse of the banking industry

The name, Okpufu, may not ring a bell in anyone’s ear. Okpufu is the name of the pastoral village in Ntsurakpa autonomous community of Ebonyi State wherein the permanent site of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki situates.

The comments made by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, March 2nd, 2018, when he hosted the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative at the presidential Villa, Abuja, are most unfortunate.