SECURITY people get away with anything under the pretence that they have more information than the public. Where this ploy fails, they become vicious, searching for soft targets on which to vent their anger.

FOR years, Nigerians have been desirous of a quick fix for the challenges the country faces. They range from the economy to security. All these challenges are related to the constitutional contraptions that replaced the regional governments that operated until the military intervention in 1966.

TWO governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria – one serving, one retired – have justifications for Boko Haram’s unleashing of bombs on Nigeria. Without those reasons, the bombing would presumably stop.

MEMORIES of what transpired at Ikeja Cantonment on 27 January, 10 years ago, are vastly being eroded by time and conspiracy to minimise the extent of the neglect that cost thousands of lives and more.

RINGIM, Biu and Sokoto are names of Nigerian cities, but that is not the link among them or the difference between them and Abubakar. The trio is intertwined in matters that Nigerians want to see to their end.

NIGERIA’S ruling party for 13 years, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, makes the point emphatically that Nigeria’s politics reflects the personalities and not party policies, which in most cases are ordinary words.

AS agenda for an election, the President’s manifesto, ‘Agenda for Transformation’ made fantastic reading with its picture of a government that wants to change Nigeria by transferring it to the path of enduring greatness. Great promises create great expectations.

THE sense of helplessness grows each time the bombs explode in any location the attackers choose. They do not seem to be short of choices. If the purpose is high casualty rates, Boko Haram must be achieving it with the reported death of more than 200 in Kano on Friday. Among the dead was a Channels Television reporter.

AT moments of high national tension, we have unintended ways of dousing it with high voltage drama that diminishes the import of issues. One such drama is on-going at the House of Representatives Committee investigating management of the oil subsidy.

LAGOS State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, short of going to court, has done all he can by condemning the flooding of Lagos streets with soldiers. The disruptive effects of soldiers, in presumably peacetime, appearing with combat gears and performing police duties denote panic or excessive force.

NORMALCY is creeping back to some aspects of national life, but the effects of the nationwide strike over fuel are telling. Maybe for weeks, they would be felt and the national economic losses are too obvious to ignore.

Strikes have their down side of shutting people down even psychologically. People are trying to get their [...]