By Sunday Antai RATIONAL experience has shown that humans are born into a parenthesis marked: “born and dead”. Within the opening and closing brackets is the totality of our experiences in life. Sadly, however, this aphorism which plays out daily, only falls on the ears of  humans who are mostly steep in vanity and profanity, […]

By Gab Ejuwa WILLIAM Shakespeare it was who said, “In my stars I am above thee but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them”. Dr Theodore Ahamefule Orji, the   third Executive Governor of Abia State, might not have been born great, but certainly […]

By Emeka Oraetoka THE genesis of the recent Federa Government directive to Lagos State government to revert back to the original 20 local government areas recognised by the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria is well known to all to warrant elaboration here. However, it may be necessary to understand that it surely amounts to […]

By Emeka  Ezenwaka A RECENT visit to Anambra State confirmed that the state is caught in the web of another election fever. Available spaces in the state capital – walls, signboards, trees and open spaces -have been covered with campaign posters of many gubernatorial candidates jostling to take a shot at the Government House, Awka, […]

THE brazen decision of the Lamido Sanusi-led Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sack the CEOs and Executive Directors of Oceanic Bank, Afribank, Intercontinental Bank, Union Bank and Finbank should be treated with the due suspicion that it deserves.