Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, of Kaduna State graduated from the famous Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria in 1972 with a degree in Public Administration.

Today, in the Caliphate city of Sokoto, Nigeria’s Number Four citizen and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, will be conferred with a honourary doctorate degree by one of the country’s premier institutions of higher learning, the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS).

TWENTY three years after Nigeria’s independence was an era that witnessed huge capital investments by the Federal Government to lay the foundation for a strong and vibrant economy.

RECENTLY, as the 10-year deadline for the appeal of the ICJ ruling on Bakassi approached, the legal community in Nigeria made strident appeals to the Federal Government to appeal the judgement .

INTEGRITY, they say, is telling oneself the truth, while honesty is telling the truth to other people. People should always learn how to toe the path of honour, if they have any, especially when it is clear they are no longer relevant and wanted by the larger society.

INSPITE of the euphoria that swept across Africa at the re-election of US President, Mr. Barack Obama, an African-American, Africa in Mr. Obama’s second term, just as in his first term, will not get any significant engagement or attention from Washington, except in its universal obsession with counter-terrorism and other security-related concerns.

SEVERAL years ago, Andrew Carnegie, a famous motivational speaker, said “the men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.” In other words and succinctly put, consistency is key to success.

A FURTHER breakdown showed that while personnel allocation increased by N38.584bn, overheads got N1.836bn and capital N3.231bn, respectively.

IT is widely acknowledged that education remains the bedrock for the development of any nation. Simply put, education is the driving force behind the socio-economic advancement of any serious nation.

ON August 5, 2012, thirty three miners got trapped in the bowels of the earth, some 700 meters (2,300ft) from the surface.

TIME and again we have witnessed unnecessary deaths as a result of insufficient and very poor medical services offered all over Nigeria.

The Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro’s recent visits to Austria and Slovakia have been of tremendous benefit to the Nigerian people .The visits, which were at the instance of the Austrian and Slovak governments, afforded the Minister to address the concerns of Nigerians in those countries at a high level of government. The Austrian trip was subsequent to the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the government of that country and Nigeria in Abuja on June 8, 2012.The agreement seeks to facilitate the repatriation of citizens residing irregularly in the territory of each of the two countries and to treat such persons in a manner which is dignified and guarantees their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

THE news media and the social internet sites like Facebook, Twitter and several Nigeria online portals have been abuzz since Saturday, November 10, 2012, after reports that Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), had joined the rarefied ranks of Nigerian pastors who owned private jets.

HE is arguably the Nigerian equivalence of Midas-a Phrygian King who turned objects, everything he touched, to gold in Greek mythology. But this is where the similarity ends.

WHILE President Goodluck Jonathan may see himself as the most criticized president in the world,Delta State’s Emmanuel Uduaghan is probably the most criticized governor in Nigeria.