AFTER we have noted the following events reported in just one day’s coverage in the Friday July 22, 2011 Vanguard, we may see why Nigeria, typical of Africa’s post-colonial societies is portrayed as a polity of government without states and a society without government.

VANGUARD of July 20, 2011 ex pounded on its front page headline: “Reps afraid to discuss Boko Haram” as follows:”The fear of a possible reprisal attack against them or members of their families has kept members of the House of Representatives from discussing the growing menace of the Boko Haram sect which has been engaged in violent confrontations with security forces in Borno and other Northern states of the federation, Vanguard investigations have revealed”.

IT is a truism in Nigeria that the surest way to become wealthy, very wealthy is through the business of office holding at any of the three levels of government.

THE answer cannot be that the order of electoral governance is now institutionalized because it has not been aborted by military rule. Political parties in Nigeria are the civilian structure for electoral governance and the first act of the military in government is the abolition of the constitution, the political parties and the sack of the legislatures at the three levels of government.

IT had become evident during the tenure of Professor Maurice Iwu as Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission that the responsibility for midwifing democracy in Nigeria had been vested in the office of the Chairman of the Commission.

THE appointment of the principal officers of the houses of the National Assembly is the occasion of this discourse on contexts that facilitate the institutionalization of the separation of powers of the three arms of government and in the Nigerian case, of the three tiers of government.

THE UN Secretary General has formally initiated his bid for a second term having made his intention known by due process to both the Security Council and the General Assembly.

WHEN this column was first introduced to the public it was presented as a platform on which issues adjudged worthy of public attention and commentaries could be addressed. War is of major importance, for by it the fate and fortunes of societies are determined.

THIS excerpt from Kathryn Kulhman’s God Can Do It Again, is an excellent example of the philosophy of Christianity and a good contrast to the Gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ.

EASTER 2011 has come and gone and another is a year away. We have so ritualized Easter that the import of the event it celebrates is lost sight of. We have turned it into reminiscing.