For many teenagers, the need to be appreciated tends to increase from the age of 13. That is the average age when puberty begins and the teenager starts showing physical signs of bodily development around his sensuous areas; while the emotional needs of being appreciated by someone outside mummy and daddy subsequently reaches an all-time high by the age 15.

The recent calls by a few people in the northern part of our country for the re-introduction of onshore/offshore oil dichotomy in revenue sharing should be worrisome to most Nigerians.

The Minister for National Planning, Dr Shamsudeen Usman, did not mince words when, after a visit to Ondo State, he adjudged it a pace-setter in community development.

A simmering debate has issued from the controversial $15 million cash allegedly used by the former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, to bribe Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

ON Tuesday and Wednesday June 26 and 27, 2012, the government of Rivers State mobilized some earth-moving equipment to Abonnema Wharf to demolish all houses and destroy property, thereby rendering a community of about 10,000 people homeless. Men, women, children were under heavy rain with their property.

AS the impact of global climate change tends to manifest in different forms, flood which is one of the resultant effect has continued to wreak havoc in many communities.

WHEN oil was first discovered in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State of Nigeria in 1956, there was jubilation not only in the then Eastern Region of Nigeria but all over the country.

POLOBUBOR-as the indigenes would prefer to call it- is the largest Ijaw settlement in Warri North LGA. This sprawling community, albeit rustic, is located in the thickest of the Benin River mangroves.

As usual, the largely symbolic and valedictory 11-day tour of 10 African states, by the US Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Clinton grabbed headlines and prime airtime on major media outlets across the continent. Mrs Clinton, ostensibly on her last tour of Africa as Secretary of State, delivered pulsating messages.

THE first time I met the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Alhaji M. D. Abubakar, as AIG Zone 2, I left his Onikan, Lagos, office without any iota of doubt about his ultimate ascension to the highest position in the Nigeria Police. Perhaps, I was divinely inspired to think that way.