THE decision by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Alliance (APGA) in the 2016 election, Dr. Alex Otti, to remain in politics and put up credible opposition to the government of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State is the best thing that can happen to Ikpeazu and Abia State in the next four years.
Some say Ikpeazu has started well. That was how his predecessors, Orji Uzor Kalu and Theodore Orji started, but because there was no one to breathe down their necks, they turned the state into their private estates and successfully transferred power to their cronies in spite of their failure and their rejection at the polls. Good governance came to Anambra State when Governor Chris Ngige turned against his godfathers and used good governance to protect himself from them.
In the same vein, Ikpeazu, who will obviously want a second term, will be forced to continue to do well, knowing that Otti and his mass of followers are waiting in the wings.
When there is no credible opposition in a democracy, the people are always the losers.

Most of our Fellow Countrymen (“How many fools make up Fellow Countrymen”, asked Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, in despair) are emotional and unrealistic. Less than one tenth of one per cent understands the basic principles of economics. Most of the leaders, drawn from the same pool of people, are not different. Even those among the leaders who understand the principles of economics lack the moral courage to tell the truth when issues pertaining to economics become contentious. They choose to play to gallery by telling the “masses” what they prefer to be told instead of telling the truth which might be unpopular.

The devaluation of the naira is the talk of the town. It is on everyone’s lips. From 200 to the dollar, the naira dropped as low as 400, and then rallied again to 310. Although the government has refused to devalue the currency officially, Nigerians know it has already been devalued unofficially.

The details are still frankly, quite murky. But the general outline is this: round about August 2015, a young underage girl, Ese Rita Oruru, was abducted by Yinusa Yellow a 25-year Muslim resident of Yenegoa, and taken to Kano, where Yinusa was originally born, and from where he came to live in Bayelsa, where he made home, and a living hawking water.

Were you part of the 50-day-fasting of the Redeemed Christian Church of God? If you did, then believe the word of Daddy G.O. that great testimonies will be your portion very soon.