Many people will be shocked with the data from the Africa Health, Human & Social Development (Afri-Dev) which provides factual data on Human Development Indices in Nigeria when they see it. But not me, because I saw it coming long before it became a reality

THE president, Muhammadu Buhari, pledged to present his cabinet in September, all of four months after his inauguration as president. The president has so far led the nation without an executive council, and with little more than a small presidential staff.

FROM the old, cranky bridge overlooking the Aba waterside, the crowd of bystanders stood to watch the new cinema. There used to be the old REX and EMI Cinema in this town where the senior boys of old stole out of bed and scale over the barbed wire fences of their dormitories at night to watch the escapades of the Chinese macho man, Bruce Lee, the American version of Rambo. That was the Aba of old, the paradise lost.

MY dear Governor, Am often amazed why most aides to Nigerian leaders are allowed in the campaign trails. The definition of aides in this type of political arrangement, is somebody has won his way into an office and the resultant search for capable hands to assist him to deliver. But no Nigerian leader has ever treaded this path.

THE ancient Greeks were firm believers in signs and omens, and a favourite saying of the philosophers of that era is: “When the student is ready, the Teacher will appear”.