In 2013, China’s president, Xi Jinping, proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (The Belt and Road). Essentially, the “Belt” includes countries situated on the original Silk Road through Central Asia, West Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

THE great French philosopher, Charles Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu was an eclectic writer. He started his writings innocuously enough in 1722 with a satirical offering: The Persian Letters, that made him quite famous within the French society. But his magnum opus was published twenty six years into his writing career, and that was his book; The Spirit of Laws.

RECENTLY, I was at a function which held at the events hall of the Government House Annex, Warri, on the invitation of a friend Mr. Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh, son of the renowned Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh family and chairman Itsekiri Development Congress, IDC.

THE cumulative effect of all these atrocities is that everywhere today there is anger. Ideology, vision, competence, genuine love for country and people, as well as humanism; not even age, gender, tribe or religion, is what determines good leadership, and promotes development.

The DISCOS and GENCOS from all appearances, are bankrupt companies which need to be taken over; pouring huge sums of money into them is like pouring water into a basket