FORMER Consul-General of Nigeria in Atlanta, United States of America and Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of Nigeria, The Hague, Netherlands, Ambassador Joe Keshi, has advised the Federal Government to change strategy and rejig its foreign policy in response to what he describes as the U.S’ double standards.

Mr. Ben Onyechere, former Special Adviser to Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, has said that it is undemocratic to allow and settle for corruption in party primaries without consideration to the survival of democracy in the larger society.

UNIVERSITY Don, Dr. Frank Okafor, has blamed 95 per cent of electoral violence in Nigeria on youths.

United Progressives Party, UPP, has berated the Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, over its endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan, as the preferred candidate of Ndigbo ahead of the presidential elections.

A country with a very vibrant opposition is a blessed one. Man has not been able to master power the way it was purposed. Societies that have therefore succeeded in putting checks and balances to power excesses are the ones moving their democracy ahead. ‘Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’, we have seen it in our parties and in government, that is why the APC’s current posture against the PDP in the coming election is a good development for Nigeria.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday warned that under no circumstances should the general elections be postponed, as being canvassed the National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki and few others.

SEVERAL members of the House of Bishops of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) have lauded the Diocese of Ijebu South/West for its developmental strides during the past five years of its inauguration.

Ahead of this month’s general elections, the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State, Mr. Abubakar Adamu Mohammed, has charged politicians to abstain from the use of inflammatory words during their electioneering campaigns.

Today, February 4, is World Cancer Day. It is a day set aside by the United Nations and World Health Organisation to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. The Day is part of the Big War against the global cancer epidemic.

The Arewa Consultattive Forum, ACF, has called on the Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU, to call off its nationwide strike to prevent further loss of lives

As I began to write this piece, Americans were feverishly expecting the giant clash of football titans in Arizona. It was the 49th SuperBowl competition, the ultimate forum to determine the true champions of American football. Two teams, the Seattle Seahawks (my favourite and defending champions) were about to slug it out with the New England Patriots, a team that has been dogged with controversy over tampering with the footballs they used in the knockout match that earned them a place in the SuperBowl.

NOT many took him seriously when he plunged himself into the highly competitive presidential election under the All Progressives Congress, APC, which threw up Gen. Muhammadu Bunari at the last count.

A deadlocked meeting of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, on Sunday night has factionalised the apex Urhobo leadership organ with each faction endorsing two different Urhobo sons as Urhobo sole candidate for the February 28, governorship election.

ADO EKITI—Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose has urged Nigerian students to shun violence in the February general election.

The Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba has allayed the fears of the people in the country over the coming general elections, saying, the Nigeria Police was prepared to play its role as a law enforcement agent.