AS the flurry of political activities start to gather momemtum in Anambra state in readiness for the 2014 governorship election, several gladiators from the serious minded to the charlatans have started creating awareness, even though subtly on their aspirations. Some even want their faces seen on the streets of the state just for effect, while some choose to use the opportunity to massage their ego.

TROJAFUIT is a latin word that means “Troy was, Troy is no more”.It illustrates a city that once was but is no more. Troy is a city according to Greek legend that was captured by the Greeks under Agamemnon after a ten-year siege.

THE University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Literature 301 (African Fiction) Class was weeks late in starting for the 1980/81 academic year. On the fourth week, the students had gathered as usual even before it was time for the class.

WHEN the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on November 1, 2007 laid the foundation stone for the construction of the 140 megawatts Aba power plant to be constructed by a private power company, Geometric Power Systems Limited, at the plant site in Osisioma-Ngwa, Abia State, not many Nigerians believed that the project would materialize.

All too often the state is tempted into activities to which it is either ill-suited or which are beyond its capabilities. Perhaps the greatest of these temptations is government’s desire to concentrate economic power in its own hands. It begins to believe that it knows how to manage business. But let me tell you, it doesn’t as we discovered in Britain in the 1970s when nationalisation and prices and incomes policy together deprived management of the ability to manage. And when we came to privatise and deregulate in the 1980s it took some time before these skills returned.