FORGIVE me — forgive us. We have failed you. We have failed you miserably. Literally every single day of my life I receive a text or email from one of you pleading for help — in desperate search for a job – any job. About a million of you leave the school system every year.

AKWA  IBOM State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has always been one  that can correctly be described as a true son of the state and patriot. His interest in matters that affect the state goes back long before he began the journey that would end with him steering the ship of  state as its governor; long before he was appointed secretary to the state government in 2013.

When great men celebrate, even the stars bow in solemn hallow. As the immediate past governor of Delta State and the All Progressives Congress candidate for Delta South Senatorial District, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan celebrates his 64th birthday today (October 22, 2018), the periscope is focused on a man who has given his all to create peace, tranquility and progress for his people and the Niger-Delta region as a whole.

In five months, millions of Nigerians will troop to voting centres for an opportunity that we only get every four years in our steadily-growing democracy – the chance to elect the President. The man or woman with the power to decide the fate and fortune of our country for another four years.

FROM the vote-buying and voters intimidation scenarios of Ekiti and Osun to the trashing of Akinwunmi Ambode in Lagos State by the structures that enthroned him and the eventual emergence of party flag-bearers at the State and Federal levels, the political ecosystem of the country has been charged in the past few weeks.