THE leaders of the North, or those who say that they are leaders of the vast North, that supposedly includes the Igala, Tiv, Idoma, Nupe, Gbagyi, etc, gathered recently in Kano and indulged in what can best be described as an exercise in deception all in a desperate attempt to get power to return to a region which has been balkanised because of the natural tendency of some people to think that power belongs to them.

WHEN Abia State’s Chief Theodore Orji announced his government’s plan to construct an airport of international standard in the state before the expiration of his second term in office, some armchair critics and cynics did not take him seriously.

The disruptive nature of cloud computing will have far-reaching effects across all continents and industries as global players in the industry scuffle for market share in emerging opportunities for small to medium (SME) enterprises.

SATURDAY, March 8, 2014, was this year’s International Women’s Day, the first of which was celebrated in 1911. The celebration is a reminder of the plight of women all over the world while it marks their economic, political and social achievements. In history, even among the most socially advanced nations of the world, the status of women was always seen as inferior to that of men. Not only were women’s roles secondary, women were, in several cases, totally excluded from participation in certain activities.

THIS year’s World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos Switzerland confirmed that the annual WEF meeting remains the foremost gathering to contemplate and shape global economic agendas. The prestigious gathering captures in all ramifications the anxieties global business and finance are currently contending with and highlights the crisis of trust facing both public and private institutions.

THE feverish disputation over the suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, by President Goodluck Jonathan, dramatises a major problem of Nigerian politics.

NIGERIANS are a good people – no matter what the critics say. They are law abiding, hard working and obedient. That is the true characterisation of the average Nigerian man, amongst our various ethnic groups.

Nigeria may feel a long way away from Ukraine and Crimea. But matters of international principle are at stake.
On Sunday, the people of Crimea will be asked to make an impossible choice: to vote to be controlled by Russia; or to vote for independence – with no guarantee that Russia will show any more respect for the sovereignty of an independent Crimea than she did for the territorial integrity of an independent Ukraine.

Saturday, January 25, 2014, was indeed a memorable day in the history of Katsina State. It was a day people from all walks of life trooped to the state to honour an illustrious son, Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema, who was turbaned as the Sarkin Fulani Katsina 1 by the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman.

These days, several important national issues are competing for attention in the polity, but at the centre of it all is the question about the unity of Nigeria which has been given a fresh spark by the centenary celebrations to mark the amalgamation of the country, as well as the upcoming National Conference. During the preparation for the centenary celebrations, the debate was whether it was important or not for us to mark with so much pageantry the 100th years of the formation of Nigeria at amalgamation. In 1914, the British colonial administration under Governor Lord Lugard merged two different entities, the Southern and Northern Protectorates, and named it “Nigeria”. This was how the journey of the chequered history of Nigeria’s unity began.