THE month of May has a lot of historical importance both internationally and at the national level. May 1, every year is recognised by the International Labour\ Organisation, ILO, as workers’ day – a day set aside to celebrate the unquantifiable contributions of workers to the economies of nations of the world.

OVER the years, lack of basic skills among Nigerian youths and indeed most job seekers has been a great challenge to addressing the unemployment problems in the country. In most cases, the preference for the elusive white collar jobs by job seekers has tended to exacerbate, rather than ameliorate the problem.

Umuahia main market has been there for as long as one could remember. For more than seven decades, the market was at the centre of the state capital, Umuahia.

THE tragic snatching of the Chibok school girls appears to be the tipping point in Nigeria’s battle with Boko Haram. What started as a river of national rage has grown into one massive ocean of international outrage, escalating Boko Haram overnight from a band of local insurgents terrorising Nigeria to a truly global menace.

AS Nigeria continues to unravel and explode into new cycles of verbal and bloody violence with a threat of permanent and general insecurity across the nation, the need to advance, contemporanise and spread Africa’s equity spirit becomes necessary and urgent.