WE are convinced beyond all reasonable doubts that the Federal Government must have been listening to Mr. Ogidigan. There is also no doubt that the Federal Government’s hearing must be partially impaired. Otherwise, the lessons of Ogidigan’s full experience would have been very instructive.

IRRESPECTIVE of what happens on October 24, 2011, Bayelsa State will be one of those states where governorship elections will take place some time next year. If the Supreme Court affirms the extension of the tenure of Governor Timipre Sylva, he will simply hunker down to prepare for the polls.

FOR most Nigerian newspapers reporting the submission of the Lemu Panel’s report on the post-election violence last April, the most important angle in the story was the alleged ‘indictment’ of General Muhammadu Buhari in the report.

IT’S been five months, May to October, since baton changed hands among elected Nigerian leaders; for one group of their ‘excellencies’ to vacate office for another. And that’s how long it’s taken the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to ‘perfect’ its case against some past governors suspected to have abused their positions while in office.

THE following quote describes absolutist governments: “Like the crowns of France and Spain, the English monarchy had no superior in its realm, it was not in any way answerable to its subjects for its policy or actions, and no lawful means or agencies existed to control, correct, or coerce it if it was guilty of excess or wrong doing…

LAST August the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Ahamefula Orji issued an order sacking so-called non-indigenes from the public service of Abia State.

IN SPITE of his high position in the Senate, he has never really managed to convince me that he has the qualities of a leader to match. Before the military intervened and created undeserved shortcuts for the many flotsams and bobtails that have now populated the commanding heights of our political leadership, a person occupying the post of Deputy Senate President had to be a man/woman of great intellectual and mental substance.

Last week I had an alibi cast in iron. Last week I argued that since I was out of the country on that fateful day, I was not in a position to comment on our ouster from the Nations Cup.

“The worst thing that can happen to a leader is to look back and discover nobody is following”.
President John Kennedy, 1917-1963.

Dr Okonjo-Iweala already received my sincere welcome back to the hot seat, which had got increasingly hotter, for her courage and patriotism – even if the courage borders on foolhardiness and the patriotism laced with a martyr complex

Hi Readers! Please bear with the Vanguard as I apologize for those Mondays that this column was not published, and thank all those who felt concerned enough to send me text messages, asking what was happening.
In all these years this column has been running, God has made it possible for me to send down scripts to the Vanguard. I’m sure He’ll continue to allow this for as long as the column runs.

In spite of former President Obasanjo’s intimidating presence, his attempts to deregulate the pricing of petroleum products (particularly P.M.S./petrol) hit a brick wall. Consequently, the value of subsidies has steadily increased from less than N100bn a year to over N1,000bn, and may exceed 20% of the proposed 2012 budget according to media reports.

Right from the days of creation, everything God made was by His wisdom. Divine wisdom is the epitome of exploits. Everything answers to the operation and manifestation of divine wisdom. Indeed, supernatural wisdom is real!

Before he was made Minister –or ‘Secretary’ as the novelty then was-, in the post-June Twelve contraption that had also in it Shonekan answering to HOG or Head of Government, Comrade Uche Chukwumerije, the now bellicose, warmongering, two-time Senator from Abia, was a ‘comrade’ in the frugal sense of the word: famished-looking, austerely-dressed and definitely seeming unable to wait for the littlest nourishment to recant old, non-provident ideologies.

Whereas the nation spends over N100 to produce one litre of fuel; the product is being sold at N65 only, making it inevitable for government to subsidize the transaction. The economics involved in the subject seems clear enough to make even the opposition to support the removal of the subsidy.

Agony columns are very useful for knowing the minds of young people, and thus, in a way, which direction the world is moving. After all, in any society, the future belongs to the current young people.