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The Sir Paul Obi Foundation, a non-partisan and non-profit making body floated by the Company Secretary of NIPCO Plc, Mr. Paul Obi has marked its third year of inauguration with offers of scholarships and social intervention grants to indigent people in the society At the recent event held at the Foundation complex in Ogberuru, Orlu LGA, Imo State, Obi said activities marking the commemoration of the outfit’s third anniversary were three-fold, primarily at touching the lives of people with bias for their empowerment. He told the cheery crowd at the programme that the first of the interventi...

By James Emejo The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), yesterday stated that it is waiting for clear directives from the National Action Committee (NAC) on implementable tariffs for all goods covered by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. President Muhammadu Buhari had on July 28, 2019, approved the establishment of the NAC, for the implementation of the AfCFTA’s agreement that he signed on behalf of the country at the 12th Extraordinary Session of the African Union Heads of State on July 7, 2019, in Niamey, the Republic of Niger. The NCS, however, pointed out that the NA...

Paul Obi “A pragmatist turns away…from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions and from bad a priori reasons; from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy; towards facts, towards action and towards power.” –––William James To assess the viability of a democracy and its survival; start by measuring the number of political elites who oppose undemocratic policies. Then, x-ray the quality of debate within the civil space, specifically in times of a national crisis. Within that scope, it’s been a d...

Paul Obi More than four centuries ago, an English Poet and a Thespian from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare indicated that a “valiant never taste dead but once.” He held that death, as part of human cosmology and circle of life is a necessity that must come. As mere mortals, and as the Holy Bible postulated, we do not know the hour. Our duty therefore is merely to live our lives in preparation for that calling and sojourn to the great beyond. Once the curtains fall, our humanity takes its last breath and our lives nosedive in perpetuity; our contact with the world ceases. Only by ...