Countdown to 2027: Edo North is for Oshiomhole
By Allison Abanum Adams Oshiomhole’s first term has been defined by a deliberate strategy of translating legislative power into tangible federal presence for Edo North. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior, he has leveraged his position to facilitate federal employment for constituents and ensure fair representation in federal institutions. His legislative record includes […]
Unoma Akpabio: An epitome of compassion @ 40
FORTY is a unique number. The letters of the word are in alphabetical order. This is the only number that has this linguistic property in English. The wife of the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Ekaete Unoma Godswill Akpabio has clocked the unique age of forty today, with all the uniqueness associated with the propriety of forty.
On Modibbo’s musing about ‘his’ North
MY fellow Northerner, Kawu Moddibo, I chose to address you in this manner because I am a Northerner, from Okene, Kogi State.
30 years on: Why we need a cure for HIV now
THIRTY years ago, this month, health agencies in the US began monitoring unusual clusters of diseases that would later be identified as the first cases of AIDS.
Three-point agenda for Nigeria’s transformation
THE provision of a functional educational system should be the highest priority of government. This is more important than even addressing the short fall in the power/energy sector as an adequately developed human capacity is the greatest asset any country or people can have.
The tragedy of Anambra’s politics
CHIEF Peter Obih proved with ease in his Daily Sun interview of Thursday, May 19, 2011, that ignorance could indeed be blissful. As a cheerleader of Dr Chris Ngige’s fan club, his excitement over Ngige’s first ‘election victory ’in over 12 years of aspiration for public office is understandable. The expression, election victory, is used advisedly because the declaration of a candidate as winner by the INEC does not constitute the end of the election process.
