In a week of highwire events, there often is for the columnist, the feeling of standing lingeringly before a salad bar or a buffet of assorted cuisines. There’s much to be had, but alas, only so much can fit into the neat frame of our bodies in spite of our desires.

Finally, the Senate took up the gauntlet last week and threatened to call a vote of no confidence on the president for what they have generally perceived as his lack of serious engagement with the national security situation. Specifically, the senators were up in arms with the administration’s handling of the Boko Haram terrorist killings, and the heightened general insecurity of life in Nigeria.

Finally, the Senate took up the gauntlet last week and threatened to call a vote of no confidence on the president for what they have generally perceived as his lack of serious engagement with the national security situation.

The fascist governor of Abia State last week caused to be made clear and unambiguous, through reports published in Nigerian newspapers, that the Abia State government under his administration will not back down or rescind the order to sack three thousand so-called “non-indigenes” from the Abia State civil service.

Mr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu,a member of the conservative Peoples Democratic Party has called for the creation of a new state in the South-East. Iwuanyanwu, a businessman and financier of the incumbent governing party in Nigeria made this call at his country home in Imo State when some members of his party, of which he is a trustee, came to visit him and pay appropriate condolence on the recent loss of his wife who had just been interred following obsequies.