President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-day visit to the South-Eastern states of Ebonyi and Anambra is taking place at the most opportune juncture, to show support to a governor who has done so much in promoting the President’s policy on food self-sufficiency and to to endorse his party’s candidate in a crucial vote to install a new […]

A news item published in the Vanguard on November 11, 2017 titled: “Nigeria Embassy Berlin rumbles as Ambassador sacks staff” is blatantly erroneous and misleading. While the Vanguard Newspapers is appreciated as a medium of repute, the message conveyed in the news item is regrettably far from the truth.

“A Leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves” – Lao Tzu Indeed, the words of this great Chinese Philosopher continue to impact the affairs of men today, and to him who has understanding and wisdom is considered the greatest of them all. Howbeit therefore […]

NIGERIA  is one country which has suffered heavily due to its repeated failure to organise credible and acceptable elections. The fall of the First Republic and the subsequent eruption of the civil war were propelled by the failure of the incumbent Federal Government to organise credible elections, particularly the contentious Western Region election of 1965. The violence that followed provided the impetus for the coup of January 1966 and the disasters that befell the stability and unity of Nigeria as a nation since then.

The clause should be reviewed to take care of the loopholes and check the new wave of stealing people’s money

Six days to the governorship election in Anambra State, any visitor to the state who is very observant will notice that the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA)-led government in the state has commenced its usual political gimmicks, thinking that Ndi Anambra and Ndi Igbo are gullible.

Global attention was recently drawn to the October 1967 carnage, the Asaba massacre in Midwestern Nigeria  via a one-minute informercial placed strategically mid-way into the highly informative Global Public Square (GPS) anchored by the erudite Fareed Zakari on the Cable News Network (CNN).

Aside Governor Willie Obiano, the only sparkle in this race for Anambra governorship election next Saturday, is Osita Chidoka. But Chidoka is in the wrong geopolitical zone and in the wrong party. Case closed. Political leadership calls for more grit than glamour. Osita is from Anambra Central, but the auguries favour only candidates from Anambra North at the moment.

Organisations are usually looking for people with two skills sets: ‘hard skills’  and‘ soft skills.’ As the name goes, ‘hard skills’ are the specific, teachable abilities that can be defined and measured, such as typing, writing, solving math, reading and the ability to use software programmes.

Adjectives such as total, comprehensive, ornate and lavish flooded my mind after watching the infographic newly minted by SA&B Mega Resources Limited to propagate its offerings. The infographic is what Americans would describe with an idiom as the whole enchilada in integrated Marketing Communications.