AS recent as the mid 1970s, school leavers could apply for employment in any organisation or seek for admission into any institution of higher learning by merely waving their mock West African School Certificate result. The mock examination was...

ACCORDING to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Perseverance is defined as the “quality of continuing steadfastly to achieve a particular aim or goal despite some difficulties”.

It is the will to see things through until the end is...

UNDERSTANDABLY, the commencement of the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) in Nigeria was greeted with euphoria. Prior to the roll out of GSM services in 2001, there were less than 400,000 fixed telephone lines. Today, the number of...

THE election of Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) finally held on Friday, May 24 and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has emerged victorious. Polling 19 votes out of 35 while his opponent Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau got 16 votes...