A modern philosopher has also added his own list, the stomach which demands food everyday and the sea into which all rivers flow, yet never seems to have enough.

By Simon Ebegbulem Edo Democratic Coalition (EDC), a socio-cultural organisation in Edo State, has described the dissolution of the Executive Council of the Federation, EXCOF,  by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan as a “wise decision” and urged him to pick somebody who will be well accepted by the generality of the people of the state as […]

t a time when the Nigeria polity is in a state of flux, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced a provisional time table for next year’s elections. Expectedly, there are hoops and hays. But this report will show why all may not be well with the key actors for whom the time table has been announced just as it also defines the limits and limitations as well as the challenges of any electoral body that would conduct the elections next year.

The aura of invisibility weaved round the cabal and the political structure created by ailing president Umar Yar’ Adua seem to be cracking with the dramatic dissolution of the Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday March 17, 2010, by Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan anxious to write his chapter in the nation’s history.

What would ordinarily have been a simple matter, last Friday, became another source of tension in Jos, Plateau State capital, creating fresh panic and sending people scampering into safety from another possible blood bath.