COME April 11, 2012, Taraba State would be agog with what we have termed TAFEST ( Taraba State Festival of Arts and Culture). It is a maiden edition of the cultural fiesta as Jalingo comes alive with dancers, masquerades and arts from all the local government areas. It would be a four-day affair full of gaiety and fun.

IN Christianity, validly baptised Christians are configured to Christ in his three messianic functions or roles, namely: the Priestly, the Kingly and the Prophetic.

FOR the avoidance of doubt, the National Assembly comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate as presently constituted is part of the deep structural flaws and institutional anomaly that blights the Nigeria possibilities.

IT was, Tuesday, April 3. The staggering news hit the air. Olusegun Matthew Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo, former President and Chairman, PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) had resigned his position on the BOT.

The Federal Inland Revenue and the Joint Tax Board have resolved to begin to prosecute tax defaulters. Before they come after you, here are some tips of what you should know about the amended tax law and how it affects you as a citizen, happy reading.

IT is pertinent to advise political leaders to cultivate the habit of generating raw data for analysis with respect to planning and setting up of priority since governance is a very serious business. Governance cannot be divorced from statistics, planning and priority setting so as to address the basic needs, yearnings and aspirations of the masses.

One would only be echoing the obvious by saying that the life and death, as well as the burial of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu were phenomenal. While Ojukwu’s life, right from the cradle, provides ample resources for the making of thrillers in the world of creative arts, and transcendent study in the field of socio- philosophy; his death and the activities immediately following it are not less eventful.

In his book “The Problem with Nigeria” the irrepressible literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe, states with brutal honesty that the problem with Nigeria “was a failure of leadership.”

The Ondo state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has registered his name in the nation’s judicial record books as the first administrator to provide a court within the prison premises to accelerate the dispensation of justice.

THE December 2010 Arab Spring has no doubt extended its wind of change to Syria, as the people resolutely demand for just one thing: the only constant thing in life, change. Syria had its turn of the social upheaval, Day of Rage, ravaging the Arab world by demanding for an end to autocracy and calling for a greater social, economic and political freedom from the hegemonic rule of its rulers.