CONCEPTUALLY, crime can be seen as an infraction of both the basic principles of law and order and the norms of civilised behaviour. No society is immune from this knotty social problem but what differs is the frequency and magnitude of the situation and the response mechanisms to address it.

FOR this purpose, the Institute, in addition to seminars and workshops on an ad hoc or continuing basis, conducts courses for top level participants with a view to expanding their outlook and perspective, and broadening their conceptual capacity and qualities of discernment and analysis.

THE Hardball column on the back page of THE NATION newspaper of December 13, 2010, was as much a broadside against the police high command as it was an ill-informed disparagement of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos in Plateau State.

I HAVE the privilege and humility to come to you today, to formally declare my intention to run for a second term in office as the governor of Abia State, under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the coming 2011 general election.

IT is not an over-statement that Atiku Abubakar is today the greatest champion for demoratic stability and advancement in the country. In life, reward for hardwork is success. Hardwork surely pays. The life story of Atiku Abubakar is full of hardwork, perseverance, patience, diligence, excellence, surprises and success. As an orphan, Atiku beat all odds and emerged as a superstar from a humble beginning.