Tongues have been wagging and indeed, there has been babel of words, since Iku Baba Yeye, Alase, Igbakeji Orisa, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, named the O’odua People’s Congress, OPC, chieftain, Otunba Gani Adams, as the 15th Aare OnaKakanfo of Yorubaland.

Since the publication of the 2017 Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which indicated that Nigeria has inched out of recession, commentators who apparently do not agree with that position have struggled to link their perception to the state of well-being of majority of Nigerians. To them, since there is still an outcry of hardship in the land, then the country’s economy is still neck deep in recession.

ANYONE asked the impact of Governor Obiano’s victory in the November 18 gubernatorial ballot in Anambra State could answer with a single word: Crushing. He won in all of the 21 local government areas of the state. His closest rivals came up in dismal second, third and fourth places.

Education may, at last, be receiving some attention in Nigeria. In Kaduna State, Governor El-Rufai is wielding the broom of his ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), against teachers in a controversial proposal to sweep away an estimated 22,000 of them who’re apparently unfit for the vocation. The supply line for competent replacements on this scale is unclear.

Some people have argued that their quarrel with the Heroes Square project is the statue of Jacob Zuma, the South African President that is erected there. The question such critics should answer is, “Is Jacob Zuma a hero?”

The benefit of having these technocrats is that they will so finely finish their duty that their successors will risk a “boo” and “pure water sachets” on their faces if they ever perform less

Is aiding and abetting corruption, or the act of defending a thief falsely that he/she did not steal, against all proven evidences of stealing, not itself an act of corruption?

Nzuko Umunna’s Initiative on Igbo/Yoruba Collaboration: Panacea to Nigeria’s underdevelopment woes – Ndukwe

Monday, November 6, 2017 was a special day in the Jumbo Major House of Grand Bonny in Rivers State. It was the day the Federal Government, though the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, interacted with the Major House in Port Harcourt.

The  sing-song by stakeholders in the Niger Delta  that external forces are behind the activities of the Niger Delta  Avengers is no breaking news. The only difference is that it is now being said by stakeholders who may themselves have been shortchanged within the racket.