PARENTS and guardians with their children and wards in both public and private primary and secondary schools – which were earlier scheduled to reopen by the third week of September after a long holiday that began late July – were directed by the Federal Government to adhere to a new date following the sudden outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country.

THE Ebola virus disease came into this country and displayed its deadli-ness; thanks in part to so many coincidences, the virus is being successfully contained – the first hospital of call of the first Ebola victim; the professionalism of the first doctor who attended to him, late Dr. Stella Adadevoh and the state of first visit, that is Lagos state.

IF there is one northern governor that can be said to have been people-oriented and who has left his people in a situation better than he met them, that governor must be Alhaji Sule Lamido of Jigawa State. Before Lamido stepped in the saddle in 2011, Jigawa State was reeling from the throes of prebandal […]

ONE of my recent articles, “The problem with the striking doctors”, elicited a number of responses from my readers. Some of them called me on the phone, some sent text messages and others sent e-mails.

The dancing obscenity of Shekau and his gang of psychopaths and child abductors, taunting the world, mocking the BRING BACK OUR GIRLS campaign on internet, finally met its match in Nigeria to inaugurate the week of September 11 – most appropriately. Shekau’s danse macabre was surpassed by the unfurling of a political campaign banner that defiled an entry point into Nigeria’s capital of Abuja. That banner read: BRING BACK JONATHAN 2015.

The financial crisis during 2008 and 2009, and its devastating effects on the socio-economic conditions of many people have made bankers the least trusted of all trades in Europe and North America. Statistics also show that sometimes unjustified salaries and bonuses are contributory factors to banking’s image problem.

EVIL forest embodies frighteningly bizarre connotations. Evil forest is usually given to strangers to claim and inhabit on the conviction that it will consume them and rubblish their arrogance. This is the conviction upon which the Umuofians gave the white missionaries the evil forest to occupy in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

September 11, 2001 will not be easily forgotten by Americans and the entire world. It marked the longest most tragic day in the history of mankind (as at then), with a recorded death of about 3,000 people.

THE matter of who will be the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the gubernatorial election in Rivers state in 2015 is certainly going to be a major headache for the party because any mistake in this critical exercise can be catastrophic, given the fact that the state is currently under the rule of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with all the advantages that go with incumbency.

At the just concluded National Conference on Committee for Foreign Policy disclosed that there are over 16,300 Nigerians in foreign jailhouses for drug related offences. This figure, as announced by a delegate, the former Minister of Education, Prof. Ihechukwu Madubuike, quoting the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), was not such a suprise to Nigerians at home and abroad. Of this number, we were told 3,719 Nigerian women are in Canada alone.