The selection of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo as gubernatorial flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State for the February 9, 2010 elections in the state is the best news that has been received by the indigenes of the state since the past 10 years. For the first time, an indigene of the state who has national and international reputation has come out to be counted.

By Ugo Jim-Nwoko ONE of the complex problems generated by the Nigeria debt–trap was how the whole country was going to pay for monies borrowed by some states mainly during the Second Republic and the ill-fated Third Republic of Nigeria’s political history. Most of these resources were, however, spent by government officials mostly on projects […]

NOW that our fearless fighter has returned to the stars where he rightfully belongs, what shall we now do? I will like to join the great English author and poet – Ben Johnson – in appealing to our Trojan warrior not to leave us unprotected “but to stay, I see thee in the hemisphere advanced and made a constellation there. Shine forth thou star and with rage or influence chide or cheer the drooping stage (Nigeria) which since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night.”

FOR about four months, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, went on strike. I started thinking, what was ASUU asking for? One of the things that I learnt they were asking for is better funding of our educational system. Well, I personally do not see anything wrong in asking for better funding for education in Nigeria.

I HAD the opportunity of being at Abia Lodge in T Y Danjuma Street, Asokoro, a high brow area of Abuja that houses not less than thirty governors lodges, embassies and residences of ambassadors and high commissioners of many international missions.