Since the project is built and, during the concession period, operated by the consortium, the Government gains the benefit of private sector expertise in these areas

THE Nigerian Army has of late been behaving like what Max Siollun  in his classic “Soldiers Of Fortune” called “a government-in- waiting”. I saw on Channels TV on Saturday an advertisement by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai on his proposed “empowerment programme for internally displaced persons”.

THE person of Jacob Zuma, current President of the Republic of South Africa, came into the news in our country in connection with the erection of a life-sized sculpture by the restless Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha. That gesture has drawn a lot of flak at home and abroad.

MY guess is like yours when I read a recent report that the Senate is to probe the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the NNPC.I can’t tell the outcome of the Senate probe this time but like many probes conducted by the National Assembly I don’t have much anxiety at all. Thirty-Seven years ago, I was anxious about such a probe.

I do not believe that the Army merely went to Afaraukwu, circled Kanu’s home for some days and left him free to escape. Then, what did they go there to do? The logic or commonsense does not stand up at all