MORE discerning Nigerians would not be surprised at the suggestions that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should not conduct primaries for its presidential and governorship candidates. With Chief Tony Anenih, Chairman of PDP’s Board of Trustees adding his voice to “no primaries”, the matter is already settled.

TWO years into his presidency Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is celebrating the achievements of the administration. The President and his acolytes at a May 29 event that exalted sycophancy awarded himself high marks, egged on by Ministers, who one after the other applauded whose wisdom was behind the achievements, of course the President’s.

FOR African leaders the attainment of the Golden age by the African Union, which started of as the Organisation of African Unity in May 1963, was something to celebrate. But it was a celebration that was lacking in highlight of accomplishments on social, political and economic fronts.

THE most important issue in Nigeria now is leadership of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF. It has eclipsed security challenges the country faces.

MID-May, the remains of Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro were re-interred at the Heroes Park in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State. Most people below 50 may not know Boro, a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who died fighting in the civil war.

NIGERIANS and their democracy are unique. If elsewhere people delight in the capacities of their government to deepen their liberties, broaden opportunities, our democracy is delivered as structures, visible and tangible. We call them dividends of democracy.

ALA Agu, 76, can lay claim to fame or notoriety. It depends on who is describing him. Until a few weeks back, he was unknown outside the vicinity of Lakyo, Nasarawa South Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.

ON Monday, May 20, staff of the National Aviation Management Agency, NAMA, withdrew their services to protest failure of negotiations between their union and NAMA management on new salary scales the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission approved for them.

WHAT does the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trades and Investments do? How can Nigerians assess the importance of its work to tackling the various challenges the country faces as it grapples with industrialisation?

NIGERIA is a country of distinct contradictions. Public officers make a round of the world attending seminars and conferences on health, for example. They then conclude health is important to the country’s well-being.

LIBYA has a more dangerous transition phase that is easily overlooked. Muammar Gaddafi’s death 18 months ago has left a country in more turmoil than most opponents of Gaddafi expected.

NIGERIAN party politics since civil rule in 1999 has been dominated by factions, internal crises, irreconcilable differences, open disagreements among members of the same party, especially those in high public offices.

WHEN emergency rule arrived Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States on Tuesday, it was long overdue.

FEW believed the Vision 202020 plan of the Federal Government would be different from earlier development plans. It was. It cost billions of Naira, more than 5000 Nigerians, experts, consultants worked on it over nine months.

GOVERNMENT is determined to clamp down on users of private aircraft. It finds cover under its powers to regulate aviation though the reasons appear more ridiculous by the day.