THERE is hardly a better word for the phenomenon than tragedy. The two organs of the Federal Government created to construct and maintain federal roads nationwide have, in their abject failure to deliver on their mandates, thrown the nation into untold misery, and oftentimes mourning.

THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wanted to turn Chief Olabode George’s return from prison to a great political opportunity. They chose to portray it as the “heroic triumph” of the former Deputy National Chairman of the Party over his travails.

BASED on our concluding statement in last edition of this topic that the South East has the highest quota of outwardly migrant population, the South West being the biggest destination, the question before us is: why? The answer is that Igbo people were forced into this migratory sociology due to paucity of land space which is largely tucked away inland.

THE figures published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the “final” outcome of the recent registration exercise can at best be described as provisional. The final figures will only be known when they have been fed through the national data server to weed out the multiple and invalid registrations.

Fancy this. Hosni Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years. He is forced by popular revolt to quit and is confined to his Sharm el Sheikh resort by the new military leaders – for his own safety.

I HAD never really taken her serious as a politician, let alone presidential candidate. Not even that first time in April, 1993 when she vied along with Chief Moshood Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the presidential ticket of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), where she incidentally came third behind Abiola and Atiku.

REVERED retired Justice of the Supreme Court, His Lordship Anthony Aniagolu used to have just one piece of advice at every forum when suggesting the way forward for Nigeria: “Reform the Police and the Judiciary and Nigeria will be great”.

HE was not the first to say it. The Director General of the Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Organisation, Ambassador Dalhatu Sarki Tafida, had on September 18, 2010, issued a statement saying that if elected in 2011 the President would spend only one term in office.

EITHER due to mischief or naiveté, some prominent Igbos are trumpeting their support for the election of Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria in 2011 while calling for the ceding of the Presidency to an Igbo person in 2015.

IT did not sound real. When I read in the papers that the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari, was considering Pastor Tunde Bakare as his presidential running mate, my mind did not dwell on it for more than a few moments because I thought the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) would quickly call a press conference and give an emphatic answer: “No”.