Columnists

IN agricultural genetic engineering, scientists found a way to introduce different genes into plants in order to enhance specific desired characteristics.

AFTER what appeared an endless wait between March 28 and May 29, when Muhammadu Buhari was eventually inaugurated as president and commander-in-chief, citizens who had been on overdrive once the election had been lost and won, in the expectation that the moment the new government is signed on, sudden bliss would drop like dews from heaven have had to contend with a first week of near inertia.

THE morning I awoke to the announcement of the passing on of Emma Ezeazu of the Nigerian Civil Society ensemble had me troubled like none other since the devaluation of the modern-day Naira.

NIGERIANS must be eternally grateful to some highly discerning statesmen who nipped the bud of political meltdown before the 2015 general elections, with their swift engagement of the public and political class on the simmering likelihood of political brigandage which the nation was experiencing in the weeks leading to the February 14 and March 28 Presidential election dates.

THE Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is a product of the reform process. Among its numerous functions, it is saddled with the responsibility to regulate tariffs for all activities in the value chain.

YOU don’t have to be an economist to know that the Nigerian economy has grown at impressive rates over the past decade.

I REGARD it as an honour and privilege to be asked to propose a toast to democracy at this historic banquet. For us in Nigeria, a State dinner on the eve of the inauguration of a new President should happen once in four years and should provide a social occasion for the out-going President to say au revoir and formally introduce the incoming President to the State guests

THE nation continues to groan under chronic power supply shortage which has regressed from epileptic to comatose condition and defied all projections for improvement despite massive injection of public and private funds.

WE have just seen the extent to which CBN’s ‘long-throat’ for public sector oil proceeds (which have been replaced with freshly printed naira funds since 1971) has severely stunted the economy.

A WOMAN of reproductive age who has not conceived after one year of regular unprotected vaginal sexual intercourse is considered to be infertile. Infertility is a common clinical condition worldwide, with 10% to 15% of couples affected, that is, it affects more than 80 million couples worldwide.

THE makers of the coup d’etat of December 31, 1983 offered as casus belli “the great predicament and uncertainty which an inept and corrupt leadership has imposed on our beloved nation for the past four years… Our economy has been hopelessly mismanaged; we have become a debtor and beggar nation.” Then General Muhammadu Buhari’s 20…

AS Nigerians across the different states rejoice over yet another smooth transition from one set of democratically elected administrations to another, it will be a different celebration in Abia State. Abians will sigh in relief in expectation that the siege laid on their state by two newspapers owned by one of their own will be…