SOMETIMES, we are tempted to ask, who needs elections, particularly in the face of all the accompanying aggravations – assassinations, kidnaps, mudslinging, criminality and all that? We are also quickly reminded that what was once regarded as the serious business of governance has, in this trimester, gone awol.

VERY few of us outside the judicial circles knew the man was still in the service. As soon as he completed his dirty job of condemning Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight other Ogoni leaders, Justice Ibrahim Auta rapidly dropped out of sight. He only resurfaced, to the surprise of many, when recently the news hit the airwaves that he was going to be appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of the Federal High Court.

NEARLY a week has elapsed since the supposedly biggest global sporting event of the week ending Saturday, March 19, 2011 has stood seemingly defenseless in the face of the criticism it has generated.

CONGRATULATIONS! The number of our universities has swelled to 117, no mean achievement from the pre-independence days when we had only the University College, Ibadan. The irony is that when we had a handful of universities, they were some of the best in the world, today, our tertiary institutions cannot easily be captured on the radar of universities in Africa while they are missing amongst the world’s best.

DECISION Points is a memoir of George W. Bush giving account of highlights of his tenure in the office of President of the United States. Memoirs can be written only by office holders drawn to politics by personal visions of a life of stewardship.