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Confirmed, Chatham House is the new Political Mecca for all Presidential candidates in Nigeria. Buhari was there in 2014 and by 2015 he became Nigeria's President. It is therefore likely that many of the Presidential candidates assume that there is some kind of good luck charm in that world leading policy institute. At the moment, all the serious contenders for the seat of the President have visited Chartham house, made their case and engaged with the audience. Whoever has the best presentation in Chartham House, assuming there was a rating, would not necessarily emerge as the next President of Nigeria. That is because, like security, politics is local. You don't need to go to Sokoto to find wetin dey inside your sokoto. Put simply, all the expensive trips to Chartham House is needless. What baffles me is that some candidates who have declined invitation to public debates willfully volunteer to appear at Chartam House. Back home in Nigeria, we have serious issues th

The best-graduating student of Covenant University, Fatima Dashe, says she became a chartered accountant in her third year at the university in Ota, Ogun State. Dashe, who graduated from the Department of Accounting with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5/5, said her parents encouraged her to focus on her studies and graduate with a first class. She added that her sojourn to Covenant University was the first time she would be far away from her family and secondary school friends in Jos, Plateau State. Dashe noted that she was shy, scared, timid, and had troubles making friends in her early days in the university, adding that the institution later helped her to build her independence and confidence. She stated: “I came to Covenant University scared, firstly because it was the first time I would be so far away from my family in Jos and because none of my friends from secondary school was coming there so I was alone. I was mostly shy, timid and preferred to be on my