MR. Dimeji Bankole, the young speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is built like boxer. He’s also been known to have had at least one good brawl in office. Once, in fact, with my good friend and brother, the Honorable Independence Ogunewe, and this in the Chambers of the Federal House – and he did not pull his punches.

Sanusi is a pointer, and having performed the duty of pointing, it is left for the activists in our midst to push for the wrongs of indulgence to be righted. I think we have been indulging our organs of government by accepting that they can be judges in their own causes.

In most presidential systems only parliament constitutionally enjoys full legislative, quasi-judicial and quasi-executive powers and the combined effect of which either serves as an intoxicating force for bad (as is the case with us), or a sobering stimuli for good (as has never been with us).

One of the objectives of Christ’s coming to earth was to destroy the devil’s work. At Easter, we were reminded of Jesus’ victory on the cross, over death, hades and Satan. . The strife is over, the battle won. In spite of this victory, the battle continues to rage. Satan remains a powerful adversary.

0805-777-7836 Permit me to ask whether it is impossible to slash the outrageous pay of NASS members?” Thanks. DIKE, Aba.

Previously, political office holders stole thousands or millions of naira, dollars and pounds sterling; these days they embezzle hundreds of millions and billions which they use to finance absurdly ostentatious lifestyles and buy expensive property both in Nigeria and overseas, while ordinary Nigerians they are supposed to serve wallow in avoidable abject poverty.

There has been a disputation between the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Sanusi Lamido and the Minister of Finance, Mr.Olusegun Aganga on the one hand, and the members of the National Assembly on the other, about the allegation that legislators scoop about twenty-five percent of the annual budget of the nation, as their remuneration. The legislators deny this.

IT looks delightful that the apostles of zoning and some Northern leaders of the ruling party (PDP) have announced their candidate – the former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku to challenge the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

THE Americans are still wondering what hit them. In one of the most devastating blows ever dealt their diplomacy, Wikileaks began this Sunday, offloading some quarter of a million cables between the State Department and 270 American embassies and consulates around the world.

NIGERIA is a lucky country. Any country so lucky should also know there is a limit to luck. One cannot be lucky forever or stretch it until it saps.Table tennis tells this story in its most disturbing terms.

ALHAJI Atiku Abubakar, the consensus candidate of the pro-zoning Northern elements of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was never allowed to savour his victory over Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Aliyu Gusau and Governor Bukola Saraki.

WHEN Rauf Aregbesola the new governor of Osun State decided to contest the 2007 gubernatorial elections, it was like a man embarking on political suicide. The political situation seemed so bleak, and the possibility of him defeating the incumbent, Olagunsoye Oyinlola appeared so remote that some powerful groups in the state were not even ready to hear what he had to say.

IT’S been a week since former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, emerged the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) led by Adamu Ciroma who has been in the vanguard of the call for a president of Northern extraction to finish what some members of the Northern political establishment say is the unfinished term of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who died earlier in the year.

Hi Readers! Plans about Robert and Heather’s wedding has been put on the back burner for a couple of weeks because Belinda’s son, Simon, is going to wed the mother of his child.

Procedurally, it was very meticulous and disciplined. Getting the four pro-zoning presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the North to agree to abide by the outcome of the search for their consensus candidate to clash with President Goodluck Jonathan was a smart binding force from which it was difficult for any of the subscribers to back out. However, for some, it was the easy way out, the classic “soft landing”.