THE inspiration for writing this article comes from a recent report indicating that the Federal Government has set aside the sum of $90 million to purchase high level radiotherapy equipment to fight the rising cases of cancer deaths in the country.

IWALI Odida is a young industrious lady.  At 23 she has become an employer of labour in her Utugwang community in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State. With a well equipped hair dressing salon located on Ogoja – Obudu road, she’s been able to employ four women.  This is besides the five girls […]

IN  his dramatic lifetime, the great Ikemba Nnewi, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, never bothered himself about the issues of immortality. He lived for the world that he saw.  But as he was lowered to mother earth in his Nnewi country home, it is only the flesh and the bones that would gone back to sand. The […]

IT had been hard for me, or anybody I had met, to explain the essence of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, beyond the claim that it is an instrument for national integration. But in truth,the service part of the scheme had long been just something the initiators had in their minds.

Efforts are made in this article not to compromise the difficult task facing the honourable House of Representatives and their mandate to cleanse the capital market riddled with corruption. However, I am afraid that the allegation against the DG, SEC, Arunma Oteh, is looking very much like a fight pitted in the wrong direction.

THE public hearing called by the House of Representatives Committee on the Capital Market to examine circumstances surrounding the 2009 spectacular collapse of the market took off on a very shaky start with credibility crisis threatening to drown it.

SAME goes for the State Colleges of Technology, Agriculture, and Colleges of Education Ekiadolor, Igueben and Afuze. Interestingly, and to the shame of Ihimekpen and his Uromi godfather, students of higher institutions in the state have endorsed Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for a second term given his numerous achievements across all sectors in the state.

Today’s business landscape is characterized by a faster pace, higher customer expectations, unpredictable economies, and global competition. The key to success – and survival – is to create simplicity in the face of complexity, to minimize the disruption caused by change and growth, and to become an all-round more agile entity.

OCHEREOME Nnanna’s weekly column in the VANGUARD of March 1, 2012 made quite interesting reading as the ebullient journalist captured vividly the true transformation taking place in Edo State pioneered by the peoples Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

CONSIDER Act 1, Scene 1: Oshiomhole rushed to the residence of the rice man, Kenneth Imansuangbon, a day after his loss at the PDP primaries to procure his support for the battle ahead.