Could it be that Christianity is the most permissive religion in the world, or of the object of worship of what other faith could a professed adherent have casually remarked what was reported of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo about the conduct of elections in Nigeria?

GREECE for many of us is far away from our shores. Except for the Europeans, the rest of us do not belong to the European Union (EU), the club Greece belongs .

The formal channels of communication, formerly mostly newspapers, magazines, radio, television, films, represent the increasing and various methods of publicising events and ideas.

LAST week, the British general election results were inconclusive. The ruling Labour Party was humiliatingly forced into second place by the Conservative Party, which won the most parliamentary seats. But the Conservatives didn’t win enough seats to secure an overall majority and a political deadlock ensued.

It all started shortly after we began taking his course. He would go on and on about our dressing, picking some of us out of the crowd. I was his first casualty, nothing I did seems to please him. One day he told me to see him after the end of the lecture in his office. He said he wanted to ask me a few things and advise me on how to go about life. It was a big lie.

But it is not clear at what point, exactly, that statecraft morphed into kleptocracy, to the extent that the only reason anti-graft government agencies are set up is to get rid, or keep in check, the enemies of the powers that be. The general unspoken agreement has it as somewhere within the maze of our protracted military intervention(s) when, while literally holding a gun to our heads, the soldiers promoted themselves to the highest ranks possible without fighting a single war and cleared out the evergreen treasury in the mean time.

WHEN I first read about the intentions of the Imo State Government to infuse a massive number of 10,000 jobs into its public service, like many others, I was incredulous.

TODAY, the official days of mourning are over for President Umaru Yar’Adua. Most of his life, he did not court controversy. But in sickness, especially in the last six months of his life, some members of his immediate family, his aides and hangers on clothed him in the full regalia of controversy.

THERE is an aspect of the life and times of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua worth examining. This aspect holds the key to understanding the way that the late president sought to exercise power and to reshape the post-Obasanjo presidency he inherited.

WHEN momentous events occur we tend to remember what we were doing when we got the news. The news announcing the passing of President Umaru Yar’Adua came to me in Ibadan via a phone call from my younger brother. It was in the very early hours of Thursday, May 6- some 35 minutes or thereabout into the new day.

THE elections were not primarily for selection of persons for office in the colonial government but for the transfer of ownership of the British colonial estate from the British Government to Nigerian colonial parties organised to contest the elections.

”The national poverty ratings according to the UN, for Venezuela was 54%. in 1998. Ten years later
the same UN and the Economic Commission of Latin America have recognised that President Chavez Social
programs for Venezuela have reduced the poverty levels from over half the the entire population, to only 26%,
of the same population, with the abject poverty bracket going down to 7%.

Hi readers! It’s amazing what hope can do for you. After Dare told me that using Shola and his team to recover the debts being owed the company was the best solution for Seb’s company’s money problems, you should see how my spirit soared.

BEFORE we move on with our lives, we owe the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua this final footnote: A review of his legacy while in office. Did you notice the absence from his burial of two of his most important political partners when the journey to the presidency started in December 2006: former President Olusegun Obasanjo and new President Goodluck Jonathan, his former deputy?

The Dream Economy envisioned in government’s “‘Vision 20:2020’ seeks to position Nigeria as one of the top 20 economies in the world by the year 2020. In economic terms, this translates to having a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of at least US$900 billion by that date compared to about US$212 billion as at 2008”…. (Source: Nigeria Vision 2020 Economic Transformation Blueprint – pg. 26, work-in-progress as at 5/10/2009.