History of great proportions, will be made today (Saturday, 24th August, 2013) in Enugu when the first International passenger flight (courtesy of Ethiopian Airlines), touches down in the newly upgraded and outfitted Akanu Ibiam International Airport.

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IT was in the days that followed the January 1, 1966 coup that the young officers that took the reins of leadership started making some slogans popular. These slogans included: “No Nepotism”, “No corruption”, “No ethnicity “. All types of “isms” filled speeches from these young military leaders, and thus, ethnicity became one of the major problems of Nigeria.

IN one of my recent articles published in some national dailies, I did raise my discomfort with the wave of abuse which the social media via the Internet is presently enmeshed in. I took Abia as a case study. My reason for the choice of Abia is unarguably obvious.

AT a time when Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan was visiting China and American President Barak Obama was rounding off his tour of selected African countries, excluding Nigeria, a new book on the economy Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy’s last frontiers Can Prosper was released.