THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has just failed in its bid to nullify the results of last April’s presidential poll because the Election Petition Tribunal dismissed the CPC’s case on the grounds that it lacks merit.

Two days after we left the Upper Room in Emmanuel Town, Emeka Amadi was named one of the coaches of the national Under 17 squad. He is to handle goal keepers’ training.

THE Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, has just failed in its bid to nullify the results of last April’s presidential poll because the Election Petition Tribunal dismissed the CPC’s case on the grounds that it lacks merit.

MANY theories are associated with both economic and political developments in many developing countries, especially in Africa. Most development plans follow their European counterparts in formulation and execution.

FOR sure, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is an extraordinary Nigerian. He is the richest African in recorded modern history. Just about three years ago, he was estimated by Forbes (first time a Nigerian was making it to the charmed circle of 400 richest men in the world) as worth a little over US$3 billion. Dangote disputed the figure, stressing that he was worth over five billion.

WANTED URGENTLY: Fake and adulterated products; Killer and expired drugs; Inferior cables and wires; Fake electronics of all descriptions; Antiquated over-used vehicles, not less than 30 years old; Toxic wastes properly packaged and labeled as food; and any other items that are not required in the country of origin, to be dumped on Nigeria.

THE American Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, on being told that imperialism’s ‘revolutionaries’ organised in the Libyan Transitional Council, NTC, had captured and killed Moammar Gaddafi in Sirte, tried an uneducated re-interpretation of Julius Ceasar’s famous quote: “Veni, vidi, vici”, which translates from Latin to: “I came, I saw, I conquered”.

THE kwata between former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, and the Code of Conduct Bureau appears to be taking a messy turn with the reported snubbing of the VP, Namadi Sambo, who had been on official visit to Osun by Rauf Aregbesola over the PDP’s alleged failure to allow Tinubu’s supporters into the venue of his trial last week. It’s a big fight the ACN insists the PDP is stage-managing for purely political reasons.

DEMOCRACY has therefore not been the project of any Nigerian electoral or military government. In what sense then was Nigerian politics of the Second Republic prebendal? How did Richard Joseph coin the adjective prebendal?

ONE of the areas of serious “infrastructure deficit” (a fine euphemism for infrastructural decay) in Nigeria is in the area of our federal roads. Today, except in Abuja, there is hardly any federal road in any part of the country that is not a national disgrace.