The 2008 global financial crisis spared no nation. It impacted every country with ferocious intensity, spiraling into lukewarm confidence and untold economic misery for people across the globe.

Senator Ike Ekweremadu who has represented the Enugu West Senatorial district since 2003 would ordinarily have been rolling out the drums this weekend on his attainment of the golden age. However, the natural intervention of the demise of his father curtailed plans for pomp and pumping of hands in the senatorial district.

THE quest to produce a president of Igbo extraction has become a common feature in the build up to every Nigerian election season, and the year 2015 is not expected to be any different. Already, there have been calls by notable Igbos on the need for the South East political zone to produce the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

LOOKING through Nigerian newspapers over the past few days, it is apparent that the National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi (rtd) stirred an infinite spectrum of reactions with a single observation he made during the second South-South Economic Summit in Asaba, Delta State, on Friday, April 27, 2012. According to the intelligence chief, elements within the PDP helped create the precipitating environment that has facilitated the bloodletting activities of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

ABIA, God’s Own State is today witnessing a complete new vista in infrastructural development. If we are to paraphrase and borrow from the late Bob Marley’s hit track, then we can say that there is a natural happiness blowing through the air in Abia.