By Chikezie Odinkemere SEQUEL to the deferment of the Senate confirmation of Barrister Aloysius Nwagboso the Presidential nominee representing Abia State on the Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) pending the resumption of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, there have been some misrepresentations and insinuations by disgruntled and self-seeking […]

By Adewale Kupoluyi FOR almost two months now, Nigerian public universities have become desolate and crippled due to strike actions embarked upon by all the staff unions agitating for better funding, increased workers’ pay, autonomy and for the refusal of the Federal Government to sign the 2001 negotiated Memorandum of Understanding, articulating the unions’ requests. […]

By Babs Alasa IT is saddening and disheartening that some privileged Nigerians who ought to know better, should trivialise a very serious issue that borders on the health of the nation’s financial sector and the economy at large. Otherwise, why should any rational Nigerian fan the embers of disunity by attributing the laudable measures taken […]

THOSE who describe history as the account of exploits of courageous men and women may well be right. For, there comes a time in the life of a people when the fortunes of a protagonist and that of the larger society interweave.

THE survival of a nation depends on the good its leadership can bring to bear on the people of the nation.

By Ifeanyi Okoye ON the first day of January 2009, Emeka Etiaba, a legal practitioner and  businessman  with over 20 years experience in active legal practice took the political landscape in Anambra State by storm as he declared his intention to contest the 2010 governorship election under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, […]

By Sunday Antai RATIONAL experience has shown that humans are born into a parenthesis marked: “born and dead”. Within the opening and closing brackets is the totality of our experiences in life. Sadly, however, this aphorism which plays out daily, only falls on the ears of  humans who are mostly steep in vanity and profanity, […]

By Gab Ejuwa WILLIAM Shakespeare it was who said, “In my stars I am above thee but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them”. Dr Theodore Ahamefule Orji, the   third Executive Governor of Abia State, might not have been born great, but certainly […]

By Emeka Oraetoka THE genesis of the recent Federa Government directive to Lagos State government to revert back to the original 20 local government areas recognised by the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria is well known to all to warrant elaboration here. However, it may be necessary to understand that it surely amounts to […]

By Emeka  Ezenwaka A RECENT visit to Anambra State confirmed that the state is caught in the web of another election fever. Available spaces in the state capital – walls, signboards, trees and open spaces -have been covered with campaign posters of many gubernatorial candidates jostling to take a shot at the Government House, Awka, […]