In Nigeria, we have an acute shortage of real heroes and mentors. Most people who occupy leadership positions are people who go into politics do so to make a name or fill their pocket with money. Many of them are not interested in mentoring a new generation of leaders.

WITH awesome gallantry our founding fathers fought for the political independence of our glorious country, Nigeria. They clamoured with no-holds-barred, like the Roman hero Horatius, who fought with Spartan intrepidity defending Rome from the Etruscan invaders.

AND, sadly, it came to pass. It is well predicted that most countries blessed with natural resources, even in the best of times, perform worse economically than countries not so endowed; and that, when times are tough, countries that are dependent on natural resources come to an assured grief. There is a popular name for this strange but common condition: resource curse.

THE D-day at Ugbokun, Monday 29th , August, 2016 was the ground-breaking ceremony of Prof. Pat Utomi’s ‘Integrated Produce City’ at Ugbokun Community in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.It is a comprehensive agricultural empire from cultivation of a diversity of crops, processing, storage, and marketing to the nation and export to the world at large. The farmers’ dream city, a real trail blazer, has opportunities and potentials for generating jobs, food and forex in abundance.

THE big question begging for answer in the public domain since the precarious incident of the herdsmen attacks on communities and innocent citizens of the country is whether the heinous acts should be categorised as a state or national issue.