Today, I begin with a story we published on April 4, on our back page. I wrote the story. Please, read and follow the comments below it:

Former Lagos State Governor and Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria ACN, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has called on the newly elected members of the seventh National Assembly to ensure speedy review of the 1999 constitution towards reflecting true fiscal federalism.

FOLLOWING alleged surrender and subsequent death of leader of Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, ‘Gen’ John Togo, five more militant leaders, yesterday, at Koko, headquarters of Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, surrendered their arms and ammunitions to the Joint Task Force code named Operation Restore Hope, in charge of security in the region.

IF we savour the little blessings, we may find the patience to await the bigger ones. Our democracy challenges our patience and perspectives. Are we in a democracy? Some still ask that question 12 years into civil rule – as others would prefer in references to the civilian annexation of Nigerian politics. Few will find any significance in the fact that at 12 years of uninterrupted civil rule, Nigerians born after May 29, 1999 have enjoyed 12 years of civil rule, the longest stretch of sustained democracy since independence in 1960.

It is no senseless assumption to believe that many Nigerians would prefer a great and prosperous nation under any favorable condition. The lovely song before Independence had a sonorous chorus – we prefer independence with danger than servitude in tranquility. However, since 1960, Nigeria had the desired freedom but with undesired misery.

NIGERIA’s economic potential is well known. The country’s considerable resource endowment and coastal location ordinarily should allow the emergence of a strong growth pole for sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, Nigeria has realised very little of this potential. Instead, its history has been marked by economic stagnation and associated with declining welfare and social instability.

Anambra State Branch of the Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has condemned plans by the Federal Government to spend N1 billion for the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan.

AS the children march today to mark Children’s Day, more profound matters are being settled all over the country. Governments are being formed; politicians are doing their best to remain the circle that decides others’ future.

FOR refusing to be part of President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed Government of National Unity, GNU, a group, Forum for Purposeful Governance and Democratic Ethos, FPGDE, has commended the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

THE sixth National Assembly especially the House of Representatives, would go in history as the most scandalous in Nigeria going by all the avoidable crises that rocked it in the last four years.

MANY people have told me that they had no idea, until the last minute, that local council elections were taking place last weekend. Some even say that they didn’t know about these elections until after they had happened. And quite a few are suspecting newspapers of deliberately keeping the general public in the dark.

TORONTO —Bank of Montreal (BMO) kicked off the second-quarter reporting season for Canada’s big banks by posting a better-than-expected 7% increase in earnings on the back of lower loan-loss provisions and ongoing strength in its Canadian retail bank. The country’s fourth-largest bank in assets earned C$800 million, or C$1.34 a share, in the three months […]

PRESIDENT/Chief Executive Offcer, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has called on the elimination of trade barriers among West African nations, to promote economic growth in the region.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has stated that, henceforth importers of fake and unwholesome products will be responsible for the cost incurred for destruction of sub-standard products that imported into the country.

Detectives at the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department(SCID) Panti, have begun investigation into the death of an American citizen in a hotel in Victoria Island area of Lagos. The deceased identified as Perry Jerry Brent, was reportedly last seen with a lady the previous night .