YET again, the vexed issue of a single term for presidents and vice presidents, as well as governors and deputies, has reared its ugly head. Also being proposed along with it is that the tenure of the current crop of elected officials should be allowed to run beyond 2015 after which the single tenure will start taking effect.

THE Edo widow controversy is a poignant illustration of the power of the media in a democracy. The Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, had gone out on a routine inspection and stumbled upon a woman who was selling her articles of trade on an unauthorised spot on the road, thus blocking the traffic.

WHEN the privatisation of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) successor companies was concluded recently, the Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo, urged Nigerians to look forward to a new era of improved power supply.

Professor Attahiru Jega’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has continued to chalk up questionable competence in every election its has conducted in the country in its over three years of existence.

ON Wednesday, November 20, 2013, the House of Representatives passed the second reading of a bunch of bills which, if they eventually become law, may see corruption in Nigeria go right through the roof and drain the nation’s treasury into foreign bank vaults.

One of the steps that Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State took to reduce youth unemployment and recruit fresh, young hands to participate in the provision of governmental services was the creation of the Youth Employment Scheme of Oyo State (YES-O).

ONCE again, the National Assembly and the executive arm of government are at loggerheads over budget projections and overall management of revenues accruing from the sale of the country’s oil and gas.

Once again, the Federal Government came out hotly in self-defence over charges of worsening poverty rate in Nigeria.

Funding of “mass weddings” by state governments appears to be gathering popular appeal in Northern Nigeria.

After a hectic six months of battling Islamic insurgents under a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, President Goodluck Jonathan came back to the National Assembly early in November 2013, to ask for a six-month extension to enable the armed forces complete the job.

When a 13-year-old boy, Daniel Oikkena, embarked on the dangerous path of squeezing himself into the tyre compartment of Arik aircraft, with the belief that he would end up in America, the action sent out a strong message of migration driven by frustration.

THERE is a paradox governments have built around education — they are spending billions of Naira on education, yet the financial issues around education are not being resolved. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike is only one of many matters that are dogging education.

THE type of shocking crimes being committed in our society, and the level to which evil men and women are willing to go to achieve their devilish ends are becoming something else.

Barring the rescheduled elections in parts of Anambra State, the November 16, 2013 governorship election has come and gone. But the recurrence of the old inadequacies of a typical Nigerian election has continued to linger.

DR. Festus Iyayi, author, academic and activist of extraordinary endowments lost his life in a ghastly auto crash along Abuja-Lokoja highway on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, to bring to a climax an odyssey of struggle, commitment and dedication to social justice in his fatherland.