EMMA Amaize, Vanguard Regional Editor, South-South commented in his front page story titled “Derivation Formula: North fishing for trouble- South-South”.

FLIGHT AJ 132 was scheduled to depart Abuja Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport for Lagos at 7pm or 19.00hrs. I was booked on that flight being unable to travel with AERO Flight AJ128 whose departure Abuja-Lagos was scheduled for 14:45.

PINI Jason titled his piece on his Tuesday Column “Jaw Jaw or War War”. The conflict resolution as phrased offer diplomatic options to parties in conflict before conflict escalates into war or in the course of war itself. The before option addresses the need to manage present conflicts to prevent their escalation into state of war.

WITHIN this past week, Femi Fanikayode, Chief Tola Adeniyi and NADECO have all proposed the urgent convening of a National Conference as the platform for re-negotiating the terms of association and union of Nigeria. Adeniyi in the Vanguard of Tuesday, January 31, 2012 demands such a meeting.

THE media, especially the print media, is often the worst offender when it comes to reducing vision and mission statements into labels and mantras. Vision 20-20 is replaced with Vision 20-20-20 and there is another symbol to be treated as if it is the Policy Documents, too bulky to be subjected to critical review.

WHEN the above is the case, the problematique of constitutional government in Nigeria is civilian electoral government, not unconstitutional military rule. The puzzle for the rank and file of the Military as well as the generality of the Nigerian populace is why Military governments voluntarily withdraw from office only to return at will to office.

THE political history of British postcolonial countries began with the reform of the capitalist British Empires. The strategic difference between these postcolonial countries is to be found in the nature of their independence politics and their independence politicians.

REFLECTIONS in the media marking years of Democracy in Nigerian are by definition the microanalysis of Nigerian Democracy.

HELLO Hakeem, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Welcome to Vanguard. Your Bloody Democracy is a descriptive masterpiece. The core implication of your painstaking observations, for me, is the following:

THIS is why the Democratic Project in Nigeria must begin with the political formation of the project. And the primary institution whose raison d’etre is service on behalf of the mass operating on enough and less than enough household budgets is supposed to be the Organised Labour.