By Abdulfatai Ibrahim We have antecedent in this country that when education is given premium, it will yield dividends”, so says Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, the  Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund). It is worthy of note to profess that tertiary education in Nigeria has gone through turbulent times and it is against this backdrop […]

Just recently, the Amube Ohum Orba polling centre of the Governor-Elect of Enugu State, Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi played host to various media houses, INEC officials, security agencies as well as local and international observers who monitored the March 28 and April 11, 2015 general elections in the area.

My last Lunch with Oronto was February 22, 2015. Venue was his hotel room on the 9th floor of Eko Hotels, Lagos. President Goodluck Jonathan was just few kilometres away, making frantic consultations on his presidential campaign. Oronto had visited the President briefly in the morning, came back and went straight for a quick nap.

XENOPHOBIA is an abnormal or strange fear or contempt, of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or people from different countries or cultures. A wave of xenophobia carries with it, racism, isolationism, ethnocentrism, jingoism, racial or ethnic intolerance.

I HAVE a burden in my spirit after the death of Comrade Uche Chukwumerije, erstwhile Secretary of Information under the Interim National Government, ING. I find the passing of Comrade Chukwumerije very painful to bear. Not that he was too young to die, but that he was too good to depart at this time.

The tenure of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala may have brought a rigorous, intellectual and analytical approach to government economic policy, and an end to decades of voodoo economics. It also resulted in the death of Keynesian economics and heralded the dawn of a new era of neo-classicism. Neo-classicism is the economic doctrine favored by international agencies like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

HE is fondly called ‘Ekwueme’ by close associates and when he signaled his intention to contest through consultation; he felt the pulse of the masses. Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa was aware of what the journey entails, that there will be friends and distractors, that sycophants and jesters will come on board, that traitors and fair weather friends will be there, just as there would be committed disciples.

IT is about twelve calendar months since more than 200 young Chibok girls between 15 and 20 years of age were allegedly abducted by a group of extremist Islamic militants from the famous Government College in Chibok, community of Bornu state. This dinvasion of the students of that institution most of who had just finished their senior school certificate examination has been described as the first of its kind in the annals of history of the country called Nigeria.

TRUTH be said, it is in the interest of national inclusiveness and pragmatic politics that the number three position in the country remains in the North Central as the jostle for the Senate Presidency ramps up. Let me explain.

UNTIL 1999, the Presidential fleet was under the control and supervision of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.