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Why are youpeople complaining about kidnappings in Akwa Ibom while we have no electricity in day time to do legitimate work? IPP lights from 1am to 6am. It’s no use to us. AKS.

Every person seeks meaning to their existence, at this time of the year, it’s especially common for all of us to question the why’s the where’s and what’s.

I have, as well as others, advocated the parliamentary system. It can be less expensive to run. You can take your ministers from the rank of legislators. Of course, they will be answerable to parliaments and they can be sacked and replaced as the need arises.

It takes time for the housemates of Big Brother Africa to get used to the fact that about two dozen cameras are trained on them for 24 hours a day. What is beamed to the outside world is not all that is happening, but what the moderators of the 24-hour reality tv want the world to see.

We’re in the festive season, a season of goodwill to our fellow human beings, to commemorate the birth of the Saviour of the entire world, whatever your religion, and whether you accept Jesus as the Christ or not.

TENSION, yesterday, enveloped Jos, Plateau State capital where 32 people have been confirmed dead and 74 others hospitalised following multiple blasts which rocked the metropolis on Christmas eve.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State is fighting for his political survival. His critics are from within and outside his political party, PDP. They want him out of Government House, Uyo. Some of the allegations against him border on the crime rate in his state, while others are simply a product of political manoevrings ahead of the 2011 polls.

It is Christmas again! It is my favourite time of the year – when the languid air smells of good fare: the sharing of goodwill; the visit of friends and family; the return of migrants from various corners of the earth; the salute to the belly by all forms of gormandizing acts – the sheer sense of completion of another cycle of life and of the seasons. All these amplify the significance of this time of the year.

Christmas is here again, an indication of the cyclic nature of time.
The fever has gripped all the nooks and crannies of the globe. In the major cities of Nigeria, Santa Claus’s cheery face is emblazoned at shop entrances and windows.

Senator Abiola Ajimobi has paid his due as a major player in Nigerian politics. After a very successful career in the oil and gas sector spanning over three decades where he became managing director/chief executive officer of the National Oil and Chemical Marketing Company, he felt there was need for him to seek public office to be able to give back to the society what the society had given to him.

The 2011 Budget is certainly the most bizarre in the history of budgeting in this country. First, the president delivered a budget address to the joint session of the National Assembly, NASS, proposing a BUDGET OF CONSOLIDATION without spelling out precisely what is being consolidated.

As Lagos residents joined the rest of the world in celebrating Christmas, the Lagos State Government through the state Waste Management Authority, LAWMA has concluded arrangement with the Private Sector Participant, PSPs operators to ensure a 24 hour evacuation of all refuse that would be generated during the Christmas and New Year festivities.

Is Julian Assange a hero or a villain? That is the question before lovers of freedom of speech and those who believe that government has a responsibility to protect public interest. Give the impact of his Wiki Leaks revelations on global diplomatic practice, international political and economic relations, which cannot be quantified now, there is no doubt that it would be profound, far reaching and contrasting from one country to another and from region to another region.

The unfolding power game in Cote D’ Ivoire has all the trappings of a similar episode in Liberia and Sierra Leone where Nigerians were victims. In this interview, Mr. Frank Igwebeze, a the former Midweek Editor and Foreign News Editor of the defunct National Concord newspapers, narrowly escaped the war in Liberia, shares his experience.

Gbagbo, who has become globally isolated, is suspected to be behind the attack on Nigeria’s embassy in Abidjan which is a clear violation of Nigeria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in international law and diplomacy. Nigeria is to report the case and that of human rights violation against the embattled Gbagbo to the ICC.