The Niger Delta militants were not cowards. They operated clandestinely but didn’t need masks. The morality of their enterprise before amnesty was their pride. But the Avengers are ghosts. Troubled by the glare of the unrighteousness of their present endeavor , they took to the protective shield of anonymity . Anonymity, paints the picture of cowardice.

American Philosopher, journalist and poet, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) a transcendentalist in his book Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Economy published in 1854 wrote ‘’I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors’’. Would that be the situation of the Group Managing Director, GMD of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC Dr. Maikanti Baru who sought the counsel of former petroleum resources superintendents on the present state of the industry?

Sir, some years ago, 2009 to be precise, Cross River State started a programme meant to develop sports at the grassroots. It was purely a grassroots programme that could revolutionalise sports in the country if other states could adopt it. Cross River went to schools and rural areas to start sports programmes. They were not interested in winning the sports festival.

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has expressed delight at the manner of representation offered by the party’s lawmakers in the National Assembly, describing the legislators as worthy ambassadors of the PDP.

The former National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance , APGA, and the party’s candidate for the Anambra Central Senatorial election, Chief Victor Umeh has absolved the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC , of any blame for the postponement of September 10,2016, Governorship election in Edo state, to September 28, 2016.