The author was not surprised when President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Nuhu Ribadu to Chair the Petroleum Task Force. Short and simple, the presidency is in desperate search for credibility, especially since the fuel subsidy removal and the monumental exposure of corruption surrounding the oil subsidy.

IN the words of Anon, ‘Ordinary people think of spending time: Great people think of using it.’ Isak Dineson summed up his own words of winning this way: ‘don’t count every hour in a day; make every hour in the day count.’

FOR quite a long time now, it is obvious that the activities of the Abia State government have been getting negative publicity, most times fabricated or twisted for selfish and mischievous purpose by a particular national daily owned by a former governor.

THE average un infested Nigerian’s main needs amongst others, is to see government at work, pursuing the provision of his basics that would make life worth living like good roads connecting the rural with the urban, transportation at affordable rate, health facilities stocked and water.

WHILE the killings of Southerners,Yorubas and Northern Christians continue unabated in the North, there is a recognisable systematic effort to locate the perpetrators among the victims or at least to obfuscate the source of culpability for the on-going mayhem. The articles written by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed and Ishaq Kawu in the Vanguard of 11 and 12 January respectively are an example of such attempts.

LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola is worthy of honour. But I would return to this matter of honour after a brief detour on the uncharacteristic meanness and insensitivity which Fashola has subjected the people of Lekki and Ajah to with his toll gates schemes. I am forced and reluctantly so, to associate Fashola with a Jekyll and Hyde personality.

EVERYONE, young and old alike felt the impact of the fuel subsidy removal and nationwide strike that accompanied the implementation.

By TIM EJOOR
I almost choked on my drink last Thursday evening when a news flash came in on television that President Goodluck Jonathan was appealing to the Boko Haram group to make its demands known so that the Federal Government would know how to deal with the situation on hand.

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IN every society, socio-economic policy interventions are meant to provide directions for the realisation of needs. A policy that is structurally defective or lacks the recipients’ input will achieve little or nothing in the realisation of the expectations of the recipients. The success of any policy intervention, therefore, depends highly on its impact on the needs of the target society.

THE proceedings at the Court of Appeal, Enugu which gave rise to the court’s nullification of the election of Senator Andy Uba who represents Anambra South Senatorial district in the Senate are still puzzling.

NIGERIA with a total land area of 356667 square miles and an estimated population of 167 million people according to the international security indicators requires about 2-4 policemen per 1000 population; a minimum of 334,000 to 668,000 policemen to effectively maintain law and order under normal circumstances.

A LOT has been written about Chief Godswill Akpabio and his uncommon transformation of Akwa Ibom since he mounted the saddle four and a half years ago as the Governor.