THE quest to produce a president of Igbo extraction has become a common feature in the build up to every Nigerian election season, and the year 2015 is not expected to be any different. Already, there have been calls by notable Igbos on the need for the South East political zone to produce the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

LOOKING through Nigerian newspapers over the past few days, it is apparent that the National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi (rtd) stirred an infinite spectrum of reactions with a single observation he made during the second South-South Economic Summit in Asaba, Delta State, on Friday, April 27, 2012. According to the intelligence chief, elements within the PDP helped create the precipitating environment that has facilitated the bloodletting activities of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

ABIA, God’s Own State is today witnessing a complete new vista in infrastructural development. If we are to paraphrase and borrow from the late Bob Marley’s hit track, then we can say that there is a natural happiness blowing through the air in Abia.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State is getting very paranoid and this is understandable. It is just dawning on him and his court jesters that to win re-election is now an almost impossible task.

THE salient contents in the inaugural speech of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson as the fourth civilian Governor of Bayelsa State, no doubt, have kept the hope of building a new Bayelsa alive, with the sole objective of achieving rapid transformation.

WHEN the Niger Delta region was teetering towards the brink of great turmoil, it appeared as though this Nigeria, because of her stark dependence on the region’s ‘black gold’ to run the engine of governance, was heading towards the much-dreaded secession of component units.

THE endorsement of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as the Bini candidate by the Palace of the Oba of Benin, last week, must have left a pill, too bitter to swallow, in the mouth of the PDP candidate, Charles Airhiavbere and his supporters because it has completely rubbished the plans of his leader, Chief Tony Anenih and Mr Dan Orbih, the state party chairman who influenced his emergence as the PDP flagbearer.

HE is lethal, he is dangerous, he is very vicious. His name Pedro perhaps is his nom de guerre; others call him Mr. K. His presence in Iba Housing Estate sends shivers down the spines of residents.

IN the next couple of days, Governor Godswill Obot Akpabio will be receiving the garlands of honour as the Silverbird Governor of the Year.

In this period under review, the harmony between Governor Idris Wada and his deputy, Arc. Yomi Awoniyi has never been doubted. Their relationship has worked perfectly well with all the positive benefits associated with delegation.

IN the last few years, Delta State government began an economic transformation programme. A transformation that demanded we completely remodel how we develop our state from the old ways to a new one, to guarantee our prosperity and survival. Which we tagged “Delta Beyond Oil.”

First of all, the Farouk Lawan led ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives (HOR) found that the official daily consumption of petrol across the country is 35 million litres per day. In the first instance, this figure is in doubt as the figures officially declared in the preceding years proved to be unreliable before the committee.

I ATTENDED the last District Conference of Rotary International District 9140 recently. A team of Argentine nationals led by Rotarian Ricardo Cravero, a chemical engineer, was at the Conference as Group Study Exchange, GSE, and they lectured Rotarians on some salient issues about Argentina.