Where have all the leaders gone?

The crisis facing our country and the world at large is the crisis of leadership. In 1945 giants walked the earth: Franklin Roosevelt in the United States, Winston Churchill in Britain, Charles de Gaulle in France and Konrad Adenauer in West Germany. Stalin – in spite of his brutality – was one of the giants of the twentieth century. In the natural sciences, men such as Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr were carrying on their eternal debate on quantum physics and whether or not God plays dice with the universe.

FG Gives Nigerian Army N300B

Honorable Bashir Adamu, a member representing (PDP, Jigawa), who is also the Chairman; House Committee on Defence, on Thursday revealed that the sum of N300 billion has been given to the Nigerian Army.

Banky W Relocates To New York

Banky W has relocated. He made the announcement online to his fans, and when further queried he made it known that it was mandatory because he needed knowledge in Film Making and Directing, and he just enrolled in a school, which will make him stay in New York for three months.

I wish all my artistes were as successful as Wizkid - Banky W

Empire Mates Entertainment(EME) boss Banky W has said he is proud of his former protege, Wizkid who grew under his EME and expressed profound desire for all his other artistes to be as successful as the Star Boi.
In a recent chat with Channels TV, Banky said he has no grouse with Wizkid for going to form his own record label Star Boi, saying it is indeed his desire for artistes to grow big enough to form their own record labels.
“I signed Wiz and he blew up. Now he is doing ‘Star Boi’ (music label) and that is a good thing. It’s not a bad thing…

A don, unknown grammarian and the use of English

An intriguing Letter to the Editor was published in The Guardian of last week Tuesday, August 26th in which the author, one Kehinde Olalemi, from Ibadan, Oyo State made an arresting attempt to apologise to Prof. Keye Abiona, a don in the University of Ibadan. His reason was that he cited errors in the Professor’s publications and had the audacity to draw the man’s attention to the purported blunders.

One in 10 girls sexually abused, says UN report- BBC

About 120 million girls around the world - slightly more than one in 10 - have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says.

The children's agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers - most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean - were murdered in 2012 alone.

It notes that children around the globe are routinely exposed to violence, including bullying.

The document draws on data from 190 countries.

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Ebola: Kaduna banks begin screening of customers.

Some commercial banks in Kaduna on Wednesday commenced screening of customers for Ebola virus before they were allowed entry into the banking halls for any transaction.

Although bank officials declined to speak on the development at a famous new generation bank near the Murtala Square, Kaduna, a security officer who was using a gadget to test the body temperature of customers at the entrance said any one whose body temperature was over 40 would be asked to go back.