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.

IT was long argued that no nation survived on imports but must engage in production. And so some Nigerians responded and established factories, especially in the Lagos area.

MODIBBO Ishaq Kawu is a renowned columnist and an illustrious son of the Ilorin Emirate, the voting bloc that most times determines who governs Kwara State. In an article titled “M. D. Belgore and the unfinished work in Kwara State”, published in the Vanguard of Thursday, March 15, Kawu pointed out what he said inhibited the governorship ambition of Mohammed Dele Belgore, SAN, the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the 2011 ballot.

THE view in some quarters, in and out of Edo State, is that Governor Adams Oshiomhole is a performer. In some other quarters, the view is that he is a propagandist whose claim to having turned the State into a massive construction site is tenuous against the backdrop of verifiable dilapidated infrastructure on the ground across the State.