LAST week, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, disclosed that the Boko Haram sect has killed 3,000 people in the last few years. That is a high figure by all means and the menace needs a prompt solution.

AS the eight year tenure of Governor Peter Obi gradually winds down, political activities are slowly evolving in the flanks. Those itching to take over from him have started inching gingerly towards the political arena.

THE nation’s strive for development may continue to be an illusion as long as we are not ready to learn from our past mistakes, errors and shortcomings that could give room for a brighter future.

FOR an enduring period now, the media has remained awash with damning stories all around the oil subsidy probe and related issues. A lot of uncovering has been and is still being done by various panels instituted by the Federal Government and the National Assembly. Nigerians are taking sides based on their different perceptions and interpretation of the reports of the panels.

Chamberlin Oyibocha Orovwuje a scion of the Orovwuje dynasty of Okpara Inland, His Royal Highness, Ogurime- Rime, Okpara 1, and King (Ovie) of Agbon Kingdom (The Agbon Kingdom is made of sub clan of Okpara, Kokori, Eku, Ovu, Igun, Orhuakpor) in Ethiope East Local Government of Delta State who joined his ancestors in June 2012 at the age of 77. He ascended the throne in 1958 as a student of the famous Saint Thomas College, Ibusa at the age of 23.

I bring the felicitations of the good people, the Government of Nigeria and its public service to this most esteemed gathering. Stepping onto this platform today raises a whole new emotion that I have never felt before in spite of the fact that the very act of mounting platforms has incidentally characterised my many years in the public service. This particular act undoubtedly, marks a watershed in my career as a civil servant.

IN life, only very few things are as painful and psychologically enervating as the experience of being vilified by the public for taking a position which you know is right while the criticizing majority is gullibly led in the opposite direction which you know is patently wrong.

THE University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, is not new to scoring “first”. Apart from maintaining the enviable record as the premier teaching hospital in Nigeria, having been established by an Act of Parliament in 1952, it has scored several other “firsts” and has, over the years, built a tradition and legacy of excellence in healthcare service delivery to its numerous patients and/or clients.

UNLIKE most public hearings conducted in the National Assembly, the one conducted by the Finance Committee of the Senate on the new Customs Bill was historic. The conveners were convinced that the bill, initiated from the Lower Chamber, was timely.

I JUST finished reading the Ribadu report, both the one leaked to the press and the version submitted to the President, and in my view, the report is virtually inconclusive. And for now, I agree with the Presidency that the committee’s terms of reference was not duly followed.