The Osun Osogbo annual international festival is a celebration of culture and fulfillment of the pledge between a people and a goddess. It underscores a long history that revolves around early settlers of the town, Osogbo, who came very close to a river as a result of drought from their initial place of dwelling; hence they decided to settle in the thick forest.

IT has recently become the obsession of the Northern Governors Forum to canvass the reinstatement of the Onshore/Offshore Dichotomy.

OGOJA area is one of the last provinces in Nigeria that has not become a state. Whatever the reasons no one is sure. Most under-developed areas of the country that have become states have seen fast and significant infrastructure, economic, and political development overnight.

One of my most favourite English idioms right from my primary school days is the one that says that “A bad workman quarrels with his tools”.

Who says governance is a tea party. It is not and can never be because of the numerous challenges associated with it, which demands clear understanding of it, the ability to map out policies and programmes that will tackle the challenges without minding whose ox is gored.

IT would have taken more than a miracle for the national honours to be awarded without criticisms. What weakens present criticisms is that the proponents pretend the standards for the awards are new or that the high number of awards is necessarily an abuse.

THE judgment of the International Court of Justice, which purported to award the Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroun, is to all intents and purposes outrageous, blatantly unjust and patently unsupportable.

LIVESTOCK in Nigeria plays a big role in the livelihood of farmers and nutritional needs of the country. Livestock also contributes to farming in many other ways. Animals are used as draught power to pull plows or help weed farmland, and cow dung is an excellent fertilizer.

INDEED, the August 2012 edition of Globe Asia, Indonesia’s number one business magazine, listed 100 top Indonesia-based companies whose 2011 revenues have helped to insulate Indonesia from the global economic crisis.

NIGERIA and Indonesia share a lot in common. Both are emerging economies bogged down by weak currency, corruption, unemployment, poverty and poor infrastructure.