Parenting can be quite an arduous adventure. It is hard enough with a committed partner, but when you are doing it alone, especially in Nigeria, the difficulty rises to a whole new level. It can be tricky, maintaining good mental health, thriving as an individual and nurturing your children in the best possible manner.

IN these times of clamour for structural re-alignment of state boundaries and fiscal federalism, there is a dire need for profitable regional integration amongst nations within the Nigerian state.

For decades, Nigerians had dreamt of a crisp transport system, built around the railway technology like in developed countries for mass movement. The dream is as good as coming to fulfilment now, as all hands are already on deck for the flag-off of commercial services of the Abuja-Kaduna railway project by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The railway is one of the oldest, effective and efficient means for transporting passengers and cargoes across the world.

I FELT a bit miffed at the president’s Eid-el-fitr message not because it lacked compassion or empathy but because it lacked a departure from his strongly held minimalist view of our daily reality. In all sincerity, I have made a solemn promise not to throw empty criticism at Mr. President and only lend my voice to matters in which common sense is clearly shrugged away to accommodate political vacuity.

We must start this testimonial with a teachable conclusion: All that Christian Onyekpandu Anah treasures today is the serenity of his privacy; the humility of rendering service to God and humanity; and a heavy dose of prescribing unto others as he cherishes being done to him. That is the entire story of a man who is celebrating his anniversary; a journey that started from his ancestral Ihiagwa neighborhood, where his umbilical cord found natal rest in today’s Imo State in colonial Eastern Nigeria.

“I belong to everybody. I belong to nobody.” That was the golden statement or word on marble credited to President Muhammed Buhari, GCFR as part of his Inauguration Speech on the day of his Inauguration on Friday May 29th, 2015 at Eagle’s Square, Abuja.

For the first time in the nation’s history, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous black nation and the bedrock of the west African regional economy, suffered a nationwide blackout as the national grid totally collapsed on March 31, 2016. It was an event unheard of in the nation’s history. While the nation has always been known for epileptic power supply, this unfortunate event marked the emergence of a new low in the country’s power supply matrix. Nigeria’s minster of power, Raji Fashola, acknowledged that the nation did not have enough power to go around, attributing the problem to vandals sabotaging pipelines.

In an earlier write-up on this subject matter, a marshal point was adequately established, to wit: that the Nigerian Federation, which came into existence in 1914, and was clinically “murdered” by the metaphor of the military in 1966, though still hanging on to life till date, was actually negotiated.

It is only perhaps in Nigeria, that in the midst of hyper-inflation, hyper-unemployment, unbearable hardship, leaders will be fighting over words uttered in the hallowed Chambers of the Senate.