I DON’T know Mr. Ima Niboro, President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Advisor on Media and Publicity. But I know quite a bit about him. I’ve read his reactions to several current affairs issues in various publications and know many people who know him and know him to be a seasoned and talented member of my profession.

For some weeks, the quiet but serious minds of many Nigerians might
have been disturbed by the incessant noises about the 2011 elections by some politicians of various shades.

IT was exciting listening to the challenges of sports (football) at the public hearing that the Sports Committee of the House of Representatives had on the faltering fortunes of Nigerian football. So many perspectives, many ideas and in some cases outright jocularity ruled the day when I made an appearance on Thursday.

SUPER British model Naomi Campbell initially declined when invited to testify against former Liberian president, Charles Taylor at his ongoing trial at the United Nations special court for Sierra Leone in the Hague.

One fundamental difference between military and civil rule is that unlike in the former, the word of the governor is not supposed to be law. In fact, in a democracy, the governor or the executive do not make laws; that is the prerogative of the parliament.

If my memory serves me right, the book was about a young Nigerian job-seeker in Lagos. Each morning he leaves his humble home in search of a non-existent job, and his close observations of the struggles of daily living on the streets of Lagos constitute the backbone of the book’s narrative.

NOTHING in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.

Friday in Abuja, in a cab I had hired to take me to the airport, the driver in search of ‘good music’ stumbled on a phone- in programme that was discussing the interview that the NFF (The Federal House of Representatives insist they are NFA) had with Samson Siasia. I told the driver to stop.

The creation of the regions by the British colonial masters for administrative convenience had put them under the control of the Igbo in the East, Yoruba in the West and Hausa/Fulani in the North. The uneasy cohabitation held but not for long.

Democracy is popularly defined as a system of government designed by the people for the people. The adoption of this style as best practice of governance by several nation states is supported by the far reaching economic and social progress made by those countries with strong democratic principles and structures.