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When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the American Declaration of Independence that 'all man are created equal',he was not seeking to describe man's endowments,but their political and legal rights. He was not saying that man do not differ from one another in the powers and dimensions of their bodies,minds and characters. He was asserting that,despite variations and differences,they all possessed the right to equal political and legal treatment. We must,however,ask of what real value are political and legal equality to a man who has no bread to eat,no clothes to wear,no roof to shelter him,no chance to earn a livelihood? What we understand as a democratic society must providd for its citizen's minimum status as a member of that society,that keeps him from becoming a beggar,outcast or outlaw and that offers him some protection in his deprivation,losses and fears. In our time,the nations of the democratic world have installed elaborate systems of social security and welfare,ran...

Though assumption is the lowest level of knowledge ; it  is stil a form of knowledge,and knowledge is key. Assumptions are the foundation upon which interpretations and conclusions are built. Everything in life operates  in under certain assumptions. We make management decisions based on the assumptions we hold about how management ought to  function and how people ought to be governed. For some of us ,we consciously imbibe assumptions  and principle about life and consciously decide based on them;for others,it is unconsciously but potent all the same. Our assumptions will either drown us or help us soar through life.   We have always seen life as an immense mansion with many rooms. Some roots lead to wealth others to the opposite. Ultimately ,we decide where we end up; and life,thus far,has proved that not everyone of us decides well. We all behave differently where we have different levels of understanding,and behave the same way where our understa...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has stated that 2,537 candidates from 28 political parties will contest election to fill the 469 seats in the senate and the House of Representatives in the Saturday election.

The Director of defence information ,Maj . Gen. Chris Olukolade,has said the troops of the Nigerian Army have captured Gwoza,the headquarters of the Islamic Caliphate,declared by the Boko Hara insurgents in the North-East. Olukolade said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that the  city fell to a joint operation carried out by the Nigerian Air Force on Friday morning. Several ground forces were deployed from Madagali in Adamawa state and Bama in Borno for the crucial operation to reclaim Gwoza,which the insurgents captured and renamed Darul Hikima last year. Olukolade said the troops had earlier sacked the terrorists from several communities around Gwoza before the final onslaught on the town reputed to be the strongest Boko Haram enclave in the country. google.com, pub-7591058367659259, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

A federal high court in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned till april 22 and 23, all the suits challenging the eligibility of the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,to contest in the march 28 poll. By implication,the court will not make any judicial pronoucement on Buharis eligibility till after the march 28 and April 11 elections.

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President Goodluck Jonathaan . On F riday , said he had lived up to his campaign pledge to Nigerians that he would make the power sector a priority for his administration. Jonathan spoke during the inauguration of the Olorunsogo II power station in Ogun state. The power plant is a 750MW Nigerian Integrated Power Project.    "I have lived up to my campaign pledge to make the power sector a priority," Jonathan told the gathering that included members of the federal Executive Council, Peoples Democratic Party chiefs from ogun state and leading traditional rulers. Jonathan said although it was capital intensive to make a difference in the power sector, his administration had been tackling it headlong.      He said the short interface between public ownership of power sector to private sector would soon be over. With that session over,the president said Nigerians would begin to take power for granted in the next two years. He said,"the interface between...