AHEAD of the meeting between the Governors Forum and senators this morning, 160 senators and members of the House of Representatives have signified intention to compel President Umaru Yar’Adua to either send a letter notifying him of his medical vacation or face impeachment.

The Labour Party, LP, candidate in the just-concluded Anambra governorship elections, Dr. Andy Uba, yesterday, expressed his readiness to work with Governor Peter Obi who won the polls on the platform of All Progressive Aliance, APGA.

The activism of a Nigerian university teacher would be strange to his Western counterpart. If today clerics are joining rallies it is what the times demand. Neither Jesus Christ, the Jewish prophets nor the Prophet Mohammed to mention just a few were naturally made for the role history eventually recorded for them. Circumstances led them to it. As they have apparently led some in the media to take on our slumbering, dying and perhaps dead rulers who are determined to bring down the house on us all.

LAST November, barely a month after the Federal Government rounded off its amnesty programme, complaints began about the programme.

ABUJA – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers have resolved to work together to ensure the smooth passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill currently before the National Assembly in order to impact positively on the Nigerian economy.

The EIB vice president who described Nigeria’s financial sector as “one of the best in Africa and the world”, especially following the banking reforms,” noted that the bank’s involvement “will be a concrete proof of EIB’s venture into the Nigerian financial sector and proof of our confidence.”

BENIN—EDO, Delta and Ondo Vice-chairman of the Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, Mr. Andrew Igiri, has advised the Federal Government against the refusal of the Committee on its amnesty programme to stop the collection of arms from militants who could not meet the deadline for the submission of arms, saying that it would be too dangerous […]

He said Nigeria is far from what and where we want it to be, in terms of quality of leadership and all important development indices, adding: “The reason for this is because we have for long elevated mediocres, even substandard men and methods, to position of leadership. We feel let down by integrity lapses n our leaders because we expect so much of them: we want them to improve the fundamental quality of our lives.”

Marriage is a life long contract. You saw the man and fell in love, so whatever comes out of it, you must bear and stick by him. That is the only way a woman can become a conqueror. So, once you realise that there is no where to go once married, you will learn to persevere. In those days, we hardly hear about divorce. Not that it wasn’t going on, but it was not as rampant as we now have it.

I come from a very humble family and it was not easy. My mother had eleven of us. Then, people used to have very high number of children, not like these days that women give birth to two or three and they stop. We were eleven, so you can imagine. Then, when my father was talking, my mother dares not lift up her head. But the women of these days, because of education and technology, don’t respect their husbands that way.