THE Governors Forum, an exclusive club of the thirty six state governors is emerging as the new power centre driving the politics of the country. Presenting itself as a patriotic, supra national and non politically partisan body, it makes magisterial pronouncements which to governors carries the weight of law.

TURKEY, one of America’sstaunchest allies in the Islamic world is furious. Its anger is turned against the United States for a vote on March 4, 2010 by the House, Foreign Affairs Committee which characterised the wholesale massacre of Armenian minorities as a “genocide”.

RUFAI Ahmed Alkali the National Publicity Secretary of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, is angry about the word cabal.

WAR mongers and leading candidates for the International War Crimes Tribunal, Tony Blair and George W. Bush were in Nigeria on February 20. The twosome have made our contemporary world far more insecure and turbulent than they met it.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua after a 93-day absence was brought commando style into the country last Wednesday under the cover of darkness. The Commander-in-Chief tactically evaded the six-man Federal Government delegation sent to his erstwhile Saudi Arabia base; as the delegation arrived, he took off for Nigeria. The hapless delegation was forced to return home in pursuit of their sick leader.