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I see name is nothing but a means of identity, personality should matter to people, not the names they bear. Even on social media, there are many people who are not proud of using their real names, hence, they resorted to using pseudos.

Col Hamid Ali doesn’t seem to know what is going on in his agency, the Nigerian Customs Service or he simply decides to look the other way, leaving Customs with the same rot he met it.

It is unanimously agreed that integrity has to do with how someone lives their life. In this life we live, we face choices every day that only we can answer. We dictate how we run our own lives, and they way we run them defines us.

Sa’adu Zungur had only a nursing certificate. However, he was so well versed in western education that when sent to Lagos for further education he found the curriculum too elementary. He ended up being a teacher there. He was no match for PhD holders.

It was once reported that a female student died in one of the Kano universities while trying to abort her pregnancy that she got after having sex with a lecturer who promised to give her marks for sex.

According to Mr. Fashanu, the Managing Director of a Livestock feed sales company, it is very important to test employees for integrity even if they have the best qualifications for the job being offered. We make it a point of duty to put a question to them about their former employment and past behavior. There’s also an attitude check by the selection personnel.

The Nigerian external reserve has decreased by $3.22 billion. The development stems from the reserve being $45.07 billion as at the end of June, 2019 to $41.85 billion, by the end of September 2019.

For most Nigerians, 1st October every year is a day to celebrate our independence from colonial rule. But fifty-nine years down the line, nothing has really changed. Some Nigerians say we are worse off now than we used to be under colonial rule. Where that is not true, they can not be blamed because the state and its polity have refused to improve. The white man may not be directly calling the shots, but we are surely still living under the heels of a privileged few.

We desire a working and sane government who would help build more schools and fund the existing ones with necessary equipment and facilities, train and employ more facilitators/teachers, re-visit the school curriculum, pay teachers/lecturers very well for their huge contributions in the society and help make a free flow academic calendar.

‘‘Aliko really knows people. He has relationships, he is willing to reach out to people. His ability to reach out, and the communication skills that Aliko has developed, have really been phenomenal,’‘ Gates said of his friend and partner.

I may be right if I consider it ludicrous to celebrate independence when kidnapping, banditry, insurgency and general insecurity are becoming order of the day while nothing is done to get them eliminated.