Days ahead of only his third official African visit, analysts are split over whether Barack Obama has been overlooking a golden goose in his ancestral continent or shrewdly dodging a white elephant.

 “I don’t know what to do; I have tried all I can to get fertiliser but it is not available. Even the available ones are too expensive and the season for fertiliser application would soon be over.

THIRDLY, the challenge of Nigeria is not so much the lack of good laws, policies, rules and regulations. The implementation of these ordinances is the problem. The CCS will support other government arms by mobilising its CSOs, their members and volunteers to engage the MDAs.

A TWO-day International Conference on Nigerian Prisons Reforms ended on June 5 at REIZ Continental Hotel Abuja. It was packaged and driven by First Consultancy and Training, a UK-based company.

RIGHT from the advent of Prof. Etete Peters’ administration as the Chief Medical Director of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, media reports on the institution have taken multifarious dimensions. His leadership model has not only saturated the airwaves, but also filled volumes of newspapers and magazines.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established on May 28, 1975 as a regional trade organization comprising countries in the West African sub-region. The aim of setting up the Community was manifested in its original treaty.

Rev Chris Okotie’s article titled, “The Fierce Urgency Of Now” which was published on the back page of the Thisday edition of May17, 2013 showed clearly how corruption and crime conflate to create the present state of siege in Nigeria.

This situation has produced an unfortunate symmetry between poor state of public education and levels of poverty.

ON Thursday, May 30, 2013, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, stirred the polity with a proposal that some people consider controversial:

On both sides of the divide, we all agree that we have short memories and easily forget grave injustices. That’s why we are quick to beg for mercy and forgiveness and in the rare case that the aggrieved wants the offender to pay in some way, they are branded ‘evil’, ‘wicked’ or ‘unfair’.

THERE is a passage very common among the Ibeku people in the present-day Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State. It is a passage used to draw home a conviction over an issue in dispute.

A TWO-day International Conference on Nigerian Prisons Reforms ended on June 5 at REIZ Continental Hotel Abuja. It was packaged and driven by First Consultancy and Training, a UK-based company.

LIKE a soothing balm, the voices of Bishop Mathew Kukah and Dr. Kabir Adamu led the nation in prayers.

The youths of our generation are just the most gullible creatures I’ve ever seen. They say change is the most constant phenomenon in life, yet our forefathers in those days did not allow the changes in their time to destroy their education. Every change must have its own by-products. The by-products of our own changes are technological innovations like GSM handsets, internet facilities, social networks like Nimbuzz, 2go, Facebook, Watsapp connect, Twitter, foreign and home movies etc.

YES, it stands out like a sore thumb-and really it is a sore thumb whose exquisite pain throbs and refuses, in all its cabuncular virulence, to go – that is June 12 for you.