Global attention was recently drawn to the October 1967 carnage, the Asaba massacre in Midwestern Nigeria  via a one-minute informercial placed strategically mid-way into the highly informative Global Public Square (GPS) anchored by the erudite Fareed Zakari on the Cable News Network (CNN).

Aside Governor Willie Obiano, the only sparkle in this race for Anambra governorship election next Saturday, is Osita Chidoka. But Chidoka is in the wrong geopolitical zone and in the wrong party. Case closed. Political leadership calls for more grit than glamour. Osita is from Anambra Central, but the auguries favour only candidates from Anambra North at the moment.

Organisations are usually looking for people with two skills sets: ‘hard skills’  and‘ soft skills.’ As the name goes, ‘hard skills’ are the specific, teachable abilities that can be defined and measured, such as typing, writing, solving math, reading and the ability to use software programmes.

Adjectives such as total, comprehensive, ornate and lavish flooded my mind after watching the infographic newly minted by SA&B Mega Resources Limited to propagate its offerings. The infographic is what Americans would describe with an idiom as the whole enchilada in integrated Marketing Communications.

A primary election is an election to narrow the field of aspirants to any elective office, and it comes before a general election. Under Nigerian electoral laws, primaries are held by political parties to nominate candidates who in their opinion can win the election for the party.