I DOUBT if there can be any act of barbarism, bestiality and brutality that can parallel the notorious attacks and gruesome murder, in their prime, of four students of the University of Port Harcourt by a mad mob?

At the end of the last century and the beginning of the current century, the global hegemonic power seemed to change. In recent years this transfer of power became more apparent with the beginning of the global financial crisis from which the U.S. economy suffered greatly. With permission of the emerging powers it was then conceived that the European community could assume the leading role for its strong economic and political weight in the world. In principle, it represented a cohesive and complementary model, which had implemented a number of convergence criteria based on the principle of inter-regional solidarity since the establishment of the EEC.

HOW Anioma area of Delta State, our people have all sorts of epigrams intended to explain natural phenomena or teach moral lessons. One of such epigrams is the story of ‘Nkenu’ the beautiful bird who went to a native doctor to seek understanding of catastrophe since it had never seen or experienced it.

AT a time that our state governors are busy bickering and strategising about statutory allocations, other nations are aggressively harvesting the infinite opportunities that globalisation has created for world economies!

IT is sheer irresponsibility and gross recklessness to seek to play politics with the lives of our youth and children, for they are the hope and the future of our community. They constitute the pivot for any society willing and aspiring to develop.