On December 31, 2012, while the world was enraptured with the prospect of ushering in the New Year, someone in Kogi state, Nigeria was busy scooping the brains out of his four-month-old son whom he had just murdered. Earlier in October of the same year, the nation was shaken by the gruesome murder of four promising undergraduates who were beaten to death and set ablaze over a minor disagreement. And just as I was contemplating this piece, news filtered in again – a man has set his pregnant sister-in-law ablaze for pouring water on his dog!

It is true that the State of Osun has experienced tremendous changes that earned the state recognition nationally and internationally first as the best manager of the education ministry through the collaborative efforts of the governor Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola and his amiable deputy governor, Otunba Grace Titilayo Tomori – who double as the Commissioner for Education in the state.

We have always said what we have on (the) ground (the Presidential Amnesty Programme) is successful.

We really don’t understand you fellow shareholders, including those of you in hallowed chambers. Contrary to your insinuations, we are no rivals, hatchet-men or attack dogs.

PROFESSOR Jerry Gana is a man of all seasons. He has impacted the thought of many Nigerians with all the national assignments he has been made to manage; from civil service to politics.

WRITING on the recent series of demolition of illegal shanties at the bridgehead, Onitsha, Emmanuel Obe of the PUNCH Newspaper (Saturday Punch of January 19, 2013, page 14), among other things, stated thus: “Tales of woe and despondency hung in the air as bulldozers deployed by the Anambra State Government roared through all the markets on the River Niger bridgehead end of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway some days ago”.

IT is a matter of great concern to note the announcement by the Federal Government to spend N60b to purchase ten million phones for farmers.

I MUST clarify from the onset that I am a lawyer, not a journalist. So, I do not have any background in the journalism profession.

THIS is a fact that many know, but which is hardly acknowledged. In reviewing the trajectory of countries like the USA, Japan, Norway, Germany, Britain, Singapore, and now Brazil and India, the role of qualitative human capital in their advancement and in upholding their successes today as rich societies cannot be overlooked. In the political terrain, decisions on human capital development are even more difficult.

THE internet is the eighth wonder of the world. It has erased the borders of nations, closed the gap of time and space, removed the veil of privacy and turned the world into a global village. No invention has affected humanity and impacted the way we live and work like the internet.