In my previous article where I examined the problems of ‘Question‘ in the context of ethnic politics in Nigeria, I came to the conclusion that the ‘Ibo Question‘ is being addressed through placement of Ibos in strategic positions on merit. For example, a new Chief of Army Staff has been appointed and an Ibo Inspector-General of Police has just retired.

Even though death is taken as the final end for all mankind, last week’s passage to the great beyond of Pa Anthony Eramosale Enahoro, a record making journalist, democracy activist and political titan is being sourly felt across the length and breath of Nigeria.

SENATOR Joy Emodi’s quest to return to the Senate representing Anambra North Senatorial District is getting the approval of critical stakeholders in her constituency if recent waves of endorsements were anything to go by.

The Magis-trate Court sitting in Ikeja will today try the four suspects in connection with the theft of the Direct Data Capturing machines of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the registration of voters for the 2011 general elections.

TTORNEY General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, yesterday, explained why the Federal Government embraced the plea bargain formula to save both former Vice President of the United States of America, Dick Cheney, and other multinational corporations from passing through the rigours of trial in Nigeria, even as he disclosed that US$170.8 million had been remitted into the federation account.

THE Senate, yesterday, threatened not to approve the 2011Appropriation Bill unless Government agencies and parastatals that generate revenue submit their budget proposals to the National Assembly
Senate President, David Mark, who was reiterating an earlier statement by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, warned that the budget would not be passed by the Senate unless agencies like Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN; Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA; the Nigeria Custom Service and Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS; amongst others submit their budget proposals to the National Assembly.

FOLLOW-ING the discovery of massive fraud in the police pay systems nationwide involving over N6 billion, three paymasters and three others from some Commands in the East have been arrested.
The paymasters, having been indicted for conspiracy, fraud, forgery, among others, are to be arraigned at an Abuja High Court today.

The Federal Government has said it is committed to increasing its investment in the energy sector as well as enhance the conditions for private sector involvement in the generation, transmission and distribution of power in the next year.

DETER-MINED to lay a solid and sustainable foundation for a viable power sector, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, announced the immediate commencement of the review of the current Multi-Year Tariff Order, MYTO.

THE Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, will be having talks with the All Nigerian Peoples’ Party, ANPP, in Lagos, today.

ARRANGEMENTS by the family of ailing former leader of the defunct Biafran Republic, Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, to fly him overseas for further treatment have been completed even as the medical team handling his case at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu, have continued to battle to keep him alive.

A group of young men numbering about 60 that claimed to be ex-militants from Bayelsa State, yesterday, attacked the Abuja headquarters of the Presidential Amnesty Office.

CRISIS is brewing in the Catholic Arch Diocese of Benin City, over the appointment of a substantive Bishop for the Diocese.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Ondo State has elected daughter of the first civilian Governor of the state, late Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Barrister Jumoke Anifowose, as its state chairman.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, paid condolence visits to Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the family of the late elder statesman, Chief Anthony Enahoro, saying that a golden era in the history of the country “is coming to a total end.”