THE recent scandal involving the management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC and a private entity named NYSC Foundation has effectively confirmed that Nigeria’s biggest challenge is, perhaps, not corruption but barefaced impunity.

THE Chinese have a greeting which goes ‘may you live in interesting times’. Somebody must have said that to me because I am witnessing some of the most interesting times. I am witnessing a series of events that are proving to be more entertaining than the best Hollywood and Nollywood can offer.

Does being a graduate of a Nigerian university guarantee you a good job these days? The answer is no! In a country like ours where our youths are daily faced with the Herculean task of successfully completing a bachelors’ degree under the severest of conditions, this is what we have come to expect.

ANY time I hear the word godfather, what comes to mind is the Christian position of true mentorship on the one hand and what transpired between Senator Chris Ngige, a former governor of Anambra State and his estranged godfather on the other hand. In Nigeria today, no politician can come out and declare himself a good mentor.

For so many reasons, the Governor of Enugu State, will gladly do without another festering religious controversy with its attendant klieg lights considering the pivotal role he played as the Chief of Staff to the then Governor of the State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani.

It beats my imagination when journalists whom people are look up to for knowledge and information go out of their way to delude the public with bare-faced lies in the name of opinion writings in newspapers all in a bid to please their paymasters.

IN his media chat with a team of journalists in September this year, President Goodluck Jonathan declared his government’s commitment to end the logjam with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, by effecting the changes demanded by the lecturers.

To remind the military top brass of evergreen truism in the saying that the sanctity of truth is neither destructible nor violable, no matter elaborate attempts made to do so, could never amount to being too forward or volunteering unsolicited advice.

When President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was overwhelmingly elected as the president of Nigeria in 2011, the expectations of Nigerians were high and they wanted him to if possible use the magic wand to turn around the fortune of the country for the better.

FEDERAL Medical Centre, Umuahia (formerly known as Queen Elizabeth Specialist Hospital), Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria is a 327-bed tertiary hospital and one of the leading health care providers in South Eastern Nigeria. The facility is centrally located and readily accessible from Enugu, Imo, Rivers, Ebonyi, Akwa-Ibom and Anambra states.