IT’S all ending not with the promised bang but a whimper. After 42 years of what started as a patriotic attempt to return power to the people of Libya from the ruling monarchy of King Mohammed Idris, Muhammar Gaddafi, the one who bore the rank of a colonel but exercised powers beyond those of a Field Marshall was chased away with a $1.4 million prize placed on his head- dead or alive.

IT’S all ending not with the promised bang but a whimper. After 42 years of what started as a patriotic attempt to return power to the people of Libya from the ruling monarchy of King Mohammed Idris, Muhammar Gaddafi, the one who bore the rank of a colonel but exercised powers beyond those of a Field Marshall was chased away with a $1.4 million prize placed on his head- dead or alive.

THE most dominant topic of discussion in the country at the moment is a very unpopular one—the removal of subsidy on petroleum products.

A ONE day commemorative conference on Richard Joseph’s Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria was held at Eko Hotel, September 10, 2011. Unfortunately…

LIBYA does not have a common boundary with Nigeria. But it has boundaries with countries like Niger Republic and Chad, which in turn, have boundaries with Mali , Burkina Faso , Northern Sudan and Nigeria, all of which are weak states that have little or no control of their international boundaries.

On Saturday in Yaounde I was held hostage by friends who had my contact details. General Emmanuel Okaro, Mr Linus Mba, Mike Idoko, Onochie Anibeze, Godwin Enakhena, Stephen of Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation by calls and texts were bombarding me by the minute wanting updates on the crucial match between the Falcons and the Cameroun Female team.

Hi Readers! After my encounter with Edmund and his fiancee at Poundland in Hammersmith, I perked up, as my hitherto idle mind now had things to turn over, the uppermost being why Edmund told me that if his fiancee got pregnant, it wouldn’t be by him.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots”.

The level of corruption in Nigeria particularly since 1985 is so mind-boggling that dwelling on it for a considerable length of time can make one mad. But why is the epidemic of official corruption on the rise despite the existence of the EFCC, ICPC, Code of Conduct Bureau and increased religious consciousness across the entire socio-economic strata nationwide?

On March 8, 1925, a child named Warren Bennis was born in Brooklyn, USA. He is 86 years old now and is still waxing strong as an international colossus in his chosen field- leadership studies- where as a pioneer; he has churned out several expositions that can transform ordinary people into leaders.