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"What do the Igbos want?",Buhari asked during his media chat.: Obi Nwakamma answers him. And now, Obi Nwakanma, a Poet, journalist, biographer and literary critic, has written an article in answer to the question, "What do the Igbos want?" Enjoy: In Biafra, under three years, they were making their own rockets and calculating its distances; distilling their own oil and making aviation fuel, creating in their Chemical and Biological laboratories, new cures for diseases like Cholera, shaping their own spare parts, and turning the entire East into a vast workshop, as Ojukwu put it. At the end of the war, the Ukpabi Asika regime brought together these Biafran scientists and set up PRODA. The initiative led, in the first five years between 1970-1975 under the late Prof. Gordian Ezekwe and Mang Ndukwe, to designs of industrial machinery models and prototypes for the East Central State Industrial Masterplan, which remain undeveloped even today. The Murtala/Oba...

California is the 6th largest economy in the world. It's economy is larger than that of France or Brazil. The little problem is that California is not a country. It is a State in the United States of America. It has little offshore oil, yet its economy is larger than States in the US that are famous for their oil reserves, like Texas. California generates much of its revenue from non-oil products. It found a way to absorb and domesticate much of the intellectual output from its premier university, Stanford University, into saleable products within its economy. As a matter of fact, much of California's economy is built around Stanford University. So with this, Silicon valley developed. I'm sure you've heard of Silicon Valley at least once in your life. Now with Silicon Valley came companies like Apple, eBay, Cisco, Lockheed, Hewlett Packard (HP), Google, Netflix, Facebook, Oracle, Tesla...and the list goes on and on ad infinitum.These are multibillion-dollar compani...

Akande Akin Sanyaolu No one is perfect but I must say this that religion is a conduit for exercising evil practices such as hate, envy, backbiting, pride, cheat and even murder as the case may be either directly or indirectly. When I posited that religious establishment must be philanthropic, I didn't mean that services rendered by those religious institutions affiliate establishment be free to the people but affordable bearing in mind the poorest of the poor amongst members of such religious organization. That was the reason why I emphasised that it makes no sense that the poorest of the poor amongst members not being able to send their wards to schools setup by the religious organizations through the tithes and offerings paid,donated or given by members of the religious organization since the churches and mosques have chosen to thread the path of private businesses contrary to preaching of salvation which is the primary reason for the existence of religious body to pr...

People who know nothing,package themselves with lies and with their connections in the government they make presentation and get contracts to go about peddling lies to the people and that's the problem of this government concerning: 1. N-power 2. Feeding program 3. 5,000 payments to unemployed 4. Change begin with me 5. 1million employment 6. 200,000 employment All these above listed are shams!! Every projects must be practical and systemic not theoretical. Till close to 2years the government is still propaganding these plans and programs still not maturing into a practical project to better the lot of the people. Timely reporting on achievement of each systemic stages of the  projects must be related to the people. Conflicting information dissemination is a sign of irresponsible government. Almost half of last year was used to talk about n-power and the remaining half to talk about 200,000 employed graduate and feeding program without meaning to the vast majority of...

The former Central Bank Governor, and Emir of kano His royal highness muhammadu Sanusi the second , surprised guests present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi. Below is his unedited speech. “Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir also fulani my uncle and guardian was also the immediate late Emir of kano Alhaji Ado Bayero and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation. “My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language. “Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like North...