RECENTLY, a group of people who identified themselves as ex-students union leaders bought spaces in the newspapers to admonish Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, Edo State governor, to take the path of honour.

SINCE the constitution of the Federal Executive Council by President Goodluck Jonathan after his 2011 victory at the general election, many government ministries and agencies have attested to the fact that governance have recorded a great departure from the past.

One should be rightly puzzled that I would venture to write about the country’s satellite program at this time of national crisis with Nigeria having to deal with Boko Haram, infiltration of the administration by fundamentalist groups, unprecedented lack of personal security, untold hardships caused by the abrupt withdrawal of fuel subsidy in the background of endemic corruption and the continuing lack of essential development of the country.

YES and no. For the benefit of those who are not conversant with the infantile indulgence of building sandcastles at seaside picnics or at the village playground, their construction tickles the aesthetic imagination of little kids.

IT is on record today that within the 18 months of his truncated four-year term Osunbor increased salaries twice and salaries were never owed even for one month as the state experienced industrial harmony for the period.

EDO State internal democracy is the new song of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan emerged as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Myriad of reasons have been proffered in support of state police. One reason is the need to reduce crime. It has consistently been argued, that policing is essentially a local service and as most crime is local, we need a local police force. We all know that some crimes are indeed local.

RECENTLY, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Nnamdi Okore-Affia announced a new posting policy for the scheme. Under the new policy, corps members would be posted to four key areas: Agriculture, education, rural health and rural infrastructure.

EZE and Okoro were two sons of Abia State who went to Abia University to study governance for eight years. First to secure admission was Eze and because his people have suffered so much as a result of bad governance, expectation was high that he would better the lots of his people by doing well in the university.

DURING the last nationwide strike that lasted from January 9 to 16 over the removal of subsidy on petrol and the consequent increase in the pump price of petrol initially from N65 a litre to N141 (before it was reduced to N97) by the government, social media played more than a passing role in mobilizing Nigerians and in creating awareness on what the issues were.

VIRTUALLY all private owned media houses, both print and electronic, with national coverage are owned by Southerners.The Guardian,Vanguard,ThisDay,Independent Daily, Ait, Channels, Silverbird television stations, to mention but a few, are owned by people from Niger Delta, particularly Delta and Edo states that were hitherto part of South West Nigeria under Awolowo’s exemplary leadership.

THREE weeks ago I was at a meeting in Accra, Ghana, in preparation for the biennial African Feminist Forum, which is convened by the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), an Africa-wide grant-making foundation for African women which I co-founded twelve years ago.

FOR an instance, many contributors lack the knowledge that expatriates in certain areas are exempted from quota requirement. This includes those operating in the various free trade zones in the country such as the Export Processing Zone, Calabar; Oil & Gas Free Zone, Onne; Kano Free Trade Zone; Lekki Free Trade Zone and the Export Processing Zone, Snake Island, Lagos. Those who are engaged by government establishments are equally exempted from expatriate quota.

GROUP  mobilisation using ethnic, religious or class sentiments is a strategy which political elites in Nigeria often use to gain the support of the dominated citizens to give them political legitimacy. They often do this to gain the support of their constructed identity group or sub-groups, irrespective of the consequences to others. Hence, many politicians […]

WHEN the Peter Obi administration assumed office in the year 2006, its programme of action was tagged Anambra Integrated Development Strategy, ANIDS.