Africans and Nigerians all over the world watched proudly as Barack Obama took over the mantle of leadership as the president of the United States .

When you cut off the head of a snake, the rest of the languid body of the snake will flip and flop, wobble and jolt, convulse and squirm in protest until it no longer has the strength to continue its protest of, perhaps, an unjust act! Such seizure-like state of a beheaded snake is where I see Nigeria today, without a president to direct its daily affairs. For nearly two months now, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been away from Nigeria, attending to his illness inSaudi Arabia, and throughout this period Nigeria has been without a leader.

”Even in totalitarian states, the time comes when past errors are admitted. In Nigeria , we fail to establish a climate of inquiry.When power is placed in the service of vicious reaction a language must be called into being which does its best to appropriate such obscenity of power and fling its excesses back in its face.

The Vice President does not need a Deputy. As long as the President is still alive, only absent, the Vice President does not need a Deputy. But if he takes over substantively, then he can appoint a Deputy; if the President reemerges, then he can take back his position

‘’We live, at present, with our fellow -men as they are. If these volumes have shown what a wonderful world we live in – no creed, establishment, race, political organization or group of teachers, researchers, writers and artists has a monopoly of wisdom or morals- our editorial group may have done a little to help the next generation or two to live with our fellow-men as they might gloriously, and ideally, be.’’

Alhaji Sir, when exactly did you first lose contact with your son? When you were busy as Chairman , CEO of United Bank of Africa?Or when you were Chairman of the Northern Cement Compay, or when you were Chairman Agip oil? Or board member, NEPA, NACB, NCC,or Minister of Economic Development? Last week, the press reported you retired as First Bank Chairman, at the age of 70. We are going to make sure you are just 70.

For the second year running I have been warned by my kinsmen not to dare come home for Christmas. My family would be easy prey for prowling kidnappers. Now for a rural “boy” like me, this is nothing short of tragic. A calamity of unimaginable proportions. No matter what I may be today, I am essentially a village man at heart.

By Emma Okocha
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’Under the PDP the only thriving industry in Nigeria is Elections. Local Government Elections, State Elections and Federal Government elections are run through the years and most of those processes are never concluded. Most of the brilliant legal luminaries rotate from one court to the other, prosecuting or defending election petitions. The Judiciary have abandoned criminal cases and millions are in prisons awaiting trials.

Thanks to Professor Chinua Achebe, whose timely interventions in Nigeria’s history, whether they are real or out of his pithy fictions, will always remain signal moments in the destiny of that country.

The eerie voices of countless spirits, the bells that clattered behind some of them, and the clash of matchets as they ran forwards and backwards and saluted one another, sent tremors of fear into every heart. For the first time in living memory the scared bull roarer was heard in broad day light.”

Where Senegal, Togo Ghana , Cameroun, Ecowas, etc. must come to trade, no matter the situation of the roads. Before few Africans knew the functions of a bank, who established the first African bank which made it possible for these wandering traders to qualify for soft loans?

Nigeria’s education leaders met with scores of U.S.-Based Nigerian Educators and other stakeholders on the campus of American University in Washington, DC, for a Summit on “Closing the Education Gaps in Nigeria”, in May, 2009.

Very interesting narrative. Showed an intimate knowledge of the First Lady and an insight in the corridors of power. Having gained such an insight what should we as Nigerians do to uplift our country. For those near the corridors of power, the last paragraph is very significant.