To reduce incidents of suicide, government should employ enough psychiatrists and clinical psychologists in hospitals, prisons and school clinics

IT is reasonable to conclude that whenever the All Progressives Congress, APC, holds up the mirror to look at itself, the image that comes up is that of a once-in-an-age progressive entity created to remedy our national defects. Hard evidence, however, declines to support this distorted image. By June 11, if the ruling party’s desire comes to fruition, the control of three arms of the country’s government will be in the hands of moslems, the first time since the return to democratic rule in 1999. President Muhammadu Buhari is already the leader of the Executive arm.

Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi State and former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was born on the 5th of October in Duguri, Alkaleri local government area of Bauchi State.

For a better appreciation of the good works of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration in Delta State, it will be rational to assess his stewardship from the standpoint of the nation’s economic adversities when the governor took over the mantle of leadership on May 29, 2015. When the governor assumed office, the country was in recession and confronted with various degrees of economic challenges as a result of the drastic drop in the crude oil prices which adversely affected the state’s allocations from the federation account. This recurring decimal of paucity of funds, coupled with the inherited debt profile and other huge wage bills to be serviced, no doubt posed a serious threat to the speedy actualization of the government’s well-thought-out vision for the people of the state as contained in its four-point agenda.

EMEKA Ihedioha will take the oath of office as the sixth democratically elected Governor of Imo State on Wednesday, May 29, a dream come true both for himself and for Imolites who have suffered for long. Expectations are high, from the ruling class and from the masses.