What qualities do you think a future Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria (MBGN) should possess? Do you think having brains is more important than having beauty or vice versa? Honorable Dr. Steve Azaiki, owner of Azaiki Public Library seems to think the MBGN should have more brains as he invited the delegates over to his
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In recognition of immense contribution to national development, Azaiki Foundation recently honoured a distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Prof (Mrs.) Ayebaemi Ibuteme Spiff. It was indeed a great moment of celebration at the Azaiki Public Library, venue of the event, where a Public Lecture was held in honour of the renounded Prof. to mark her 71th
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GUARDIAN April 5, 2014 How can Nigeria, a country so blessed, live in abject-poverty of the soul and of the body? We cannot solve the paradox of want in the midst of plenty by doing away with plenty. The confusion, the killings, the hatred, the war in the land is caused by poverty. When I
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GUARDIAN APRIL 1, 2014 Now that Nigerians are talking let us give hope a chance. “When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after,” Henry Wadsworth Long-Fellow (Tales of wayside inn, 1886) said. Let us remember Edgar Waston Howe when he said, “there is nothing so well known as that we
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Until a few months ago, President Goodluck Jonathan was striving hard to get the public to focus on governance, rather than politicking. Thus, whenever the issue of the 2015 presidential election popped up, and answers were demanded whether or not he would run, the President, or more frequently, his media handlers, retorted that the incumbent
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While the Boko Haram menace raged, destroying lives and property and bringing the economy of Northern Nigeria to its knees, no group of governors in the North deemed it wise to gather and approach the country’s former military Heads of State, to save the North, and by implication, Nigeria. Boko Haram Islamists had slaughtered Christians
Read more →Every government always has work to do and no government can fully undertake or finish all the work that is required in the polity. It is therefore unthinkable that any government will be so bereft of tasks that it idles away, until its tenure expires. The fact that new seasons present their unique challenges that
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By most accounts, save a few disagreeable voices of implacable opposition foes, the May 14 State of Emergency imposed by President Goodluck Jonathan on Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa States is as much a welcome development, as it is a political masterstroke. The country had been long-suffering in enduring the spiralling menace of Boko Haram in
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It was Thomas Carlyle in Heroes and Hero Worship 1, 1840 who said; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time is rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing Ocean – tide, on which we and the entire universe swim like exhalations. Perhaps, deriving from the above, it is also true, that Bayelsa State was
Read more →Former Secretary To The Bayelsa State Government, Steve Azaiki spoke with Abuja deputy bureau chief, MADU ONUORAH on the national awards. GURDIAN NOVEMBER 17, 2011 Excerpts: WHAT: do you make of the crititsms that have trailed the calibre and number of people who were bestowed with national awards? The awards are becoming too easy to
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