AHEAD of the composition of the Executive Council of the Federation and the leadership of the National Assembly, traditional rulers from the South East zone will meet in Enugu as part of moves to review the situation, take far-reaching decisions and come up with a position.

UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won another six-year term to add to the 24 years he has been the country’s maximum ruler. Rioters are resisting him, but he lives above reality, boasting of new laws that will chain the opposition and deny bails to rioters. He claims he will not be forced out of office.

THE Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, is moving to quiet the rebellion amongst its members in the next House of Representatives by altering the proposed zoning formula for the sharing of offices. The party’s move follows the seeming failure of Vice-President Nnamadi Sambo to assuage the feelings of the members-elect during a weekend meeting.

THE National Assembly has been urged to take a second look at the Electoral Act with a view to strengthening the democratic process. Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who spoke, weekend, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during the presentation of Certificate of Return to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of the state and those elected for various National and State Houses of Assembly seats, challenged the recipients to come up with the right policies that would promote the common good.

The Judicial panel of inquiry constituted by the National Judicial Council, NJC, to investigate the face-off between the Chief Justice of the Nigeria, CJN, Justice Alloysius Katsina-Alu and the President of the Court of Appeal, PCA, Justice Isa Ayo Salami has failed to meet the deadline for the submission of its report.

NINE outgoing state governors across the country who have enjoyed immunity for the past four or eight years may soon be guests of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as their tenures expire on May 29.

IN November 2004, during the may-hem at which parts of Anambra State were burnt down, it was difficult for me to believe that people from Anambra could inflict such violence on their State. But have we not seen brothers committing fratricide and sons committing patricide.

Coach of the new WAFU Kings, Hawks of Togo, Tchanile Tchakala has described the Super Eagles team that fell 2-3 to his side in the final of the sub-regional football tournament Saturday as “very physical and lacking in depth.”

THIS is a post-mortem. The 2011 election have come and gone, but it will go down in our lore as one election in which the fabled ‘masquerades” of the Nigerian politics were thoroughly demystified.

SOMETIMES, one wonders what the numerous advisers that elected office holders surround themselves with actually do to earn their keep.