HOPE! That is what Nigerians are living for daily. It is a season of expectations. The baton of leadership has just changed hands. Lives of ordinary Nigerians have been so messed up by those appointed to lead them that they near comatose – no electricity, no water, no jobs, no good roads, health care services and more – yet we trudge on. It did not start today.

The event of Saturday, May 23 in which some All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators-elect abandoned the retreat organised for them by their party in Abuja to announce the adoption of two northern Senators as President and Deputy Senate President is a big goof. The action of the Senate Unity Forum, as the group is called, is strange, insensitive, overtly reprehensible, and bereft of a sound sense of history.

IT had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” This statement by the Italian artist Leonard da Vinci words best typifies how Henry James Semenitari has approached his work at Unity Bank Plc since he took over the reins of its management as MD/CEO in 2014.

THE recent successes of the military in the liberation of communities that were occupied by insurgents opened a new vista in the drive to support the people that were directly affected by the insecurity in the North eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. Since 2009 following the escalation of the belligerence by Boko Haram, many lives have been lost, communities sacked and destroyed resulting in the fleeing of the residents to safety in various location considered safer, thus becoming internally displaced persons (IDPs).

In my two previous interventions on the issue, I had tried to offer some illuminations as to the path the APC should take in the tricky circumstance in which it had found itself, especially with some audacious members poised to go the whole hog in the battle for the coveted seat of Senate president.

There is one magic that resides in the depth of the beauty of a woman which aids success, it is a secret found only by great men.

“Man”, notwithstanding philosophical, archeological, anthropological, historical and scientific researches remains a mystery – a complex conundrum and a prodigious myth waiting to be unraveled. His changing mien, conduct, disposition, traits, characteristics and idiosyncrasies monumentally attest to these assertions. It was in this context a bewildered 18th century philosopher and poet, John Arbunot, had asked in […]

It took me about 20 minutes for me to do a double-take on the article written by one George E Omini about the political career of Distinguished Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN).

TODAY, power changes hands from President Goodluck Ebelle Jonathan, GEJ, of the PDP , to President Muhammadu Buhari ,MB, of the APC ,as he takes charge of the affairs in our blessed nation, Nigeria. APC becomes the ruling party, while PDP, if it survives the pains, and traumas of defeat, becomes the opposition. However, should the PDP fail to become the opposition, as they appear headed to, by their internal wrangling, we will end up with an octopus APC as the ruling party, carrying with it, all the dangers that entrapped and pulled down the PDP, implying that we will be back to where we started. I pray this will not happen.

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