EVENTS in the Middle East and Africa are yet to be adequately appraised by the Security Council. That organ responsible for maintaining and protecting the global peace is yet enmeshed in its near 50 years of improvisation security diplomacy. This fact is exemplified in its Resolution 1973 that provides cover for NATO’s no-fly-zone in Libya.

THERE is a saying among the Igbo: Agbachaa oso a gua mile. After a race, you must check the distance you made. After the presidential race we must decipher the hidden and obvious meanings of the vote. What did the Nigerian electorate say with their voting patterns?

Inadequate power supply has choked the development and growth of Nigeria’s economy, particularly in the last two decades. The Punch Newspapers editorial of 22/3/2010 explicitly paints this reality. That editorial specifically notes that “Poor power supply has been at the heart of the nation’s wobbly manufacturing sector whose capacity utilization has today plunged to 29 per cent.

I do not believe last week’s article on the silence of other sports in the country was an attack.

This article could just as well have been written under the title IS JOURNALISM A PROFESSION? Since our return to civil rule in 1999, the rapid turnover of editors, columnists and reporters, after every election points to the fact that in Nigeria, unlike most of the advanced countries, media work is seen by journalists as a mere stepping stone to something else – not a career in itself.