When he announced it, his opponents were already waiting, and their counter: they placed a pawn before him to stump or check the move of his knight. I am talking about Ibrahim Babangida, whom Chidi Amuta has hyperbolically celebrated as “Prince of the Niger” – a sort of Machiavellian archetype from Minna.

THE president-general of apex Igbo socio_cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, says the organisation has not taken any stand in support or against the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest next year’s presidential election just as it has not endorsed any of the northern presidential aspirants for the poll

“Why not “step aside”, to borrow the words of another failure, and let Nigeria march to her destiny? Perhaps, his departure might even help to undo the harm done by a cynical former president”.

Presumably life is a game where we all play for a prize. Not everyone is going to agree and I am not 100% sold on the idea also but it makes sense to compare life to a game we play to win.

THERE are fresh worries that the post-amnesty programme of the Federal Government for ex-militants may run into troubled waters on account of bureaucratic logjam