Recently governmentrevealed its intention regarding the removal of fuel subsidy, a programme that has occupied national discourse in the last 19 years.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, approached the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, which is sitting as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, to adduce reasons why President Goodluck Jonathan should remain in office till 2015.

If one takes away the recurring crisis which hasgiven Plateau State a negative identity in the last few years, another recurring problem here is frequent strikes always embarked upon by various labour groups. From administration to administration, it has been a tale of strikes by workers mostly over salaries.

Pastor Tunde Bakare, for whom I still cherish a lot of fondness despite his recent foolhardy foray into party politics, found some comfort last year when Nigeria was fifty, in the fact that the nation had remained together in the face of all odds. I have often wondered how much profit was in the mere fact that we could indeed be said to have stayed together as one country.

They are strong indications that many former governors are on the run following intelligence reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will pick more of them in the coming days.