WITH more than 6,000 Nigerians in foreign jails, we thought President Goodluck Jonathan would have added their matter to charges he gave Nigeria’s 93 new ambassadors. He did not.

THE 15-member Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, is clearly in a quandary over the complex situation in Mali. On the one hand, the Captain Ahmadou Sanogo-led military junta, which seized power from President Toumani Tuore last March 22, is unwilling to comply with the one-year transitional agenda leading to a presidential election.

NOBODY expected the weighty allegations made against fuel importers and their collaborators would have gone without a major reaction. The growing bribery scandal on the committee that turned out that report could just be one of the reactions.

VIOLENCE is a major offering preceding the July 14 governorship election in the Edo State. It should not be allowed to persist. The flood of allegations between the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, fuels the violence.

JUNE 12 may be a fading political memory, but the thousands who converted it to a political cheque, which they are still cashing, ironically oppose it most stridently. Most Nigerians younger than 30 years do not have firm memories of the election, 19 years ago, which Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola won but the military annulled.

CIVIL society groups that insist the United States report on corruption in Nigeria said nothing new are right. In the same way, nothing new is being done to curb corruption in Nigeria, not even from the civil society groups, which contentedly fight corruption with words.

THE renaming of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as the Moshood Abiola University of Lagos (MAUL) by the federal government as announced by President Goodluck Jonathan in his 2012 Democracy Day address to the nation came to many as a rude shock.

NIGER State set a record last month when its State House of Assembly had third speaker in one week! The most important work of the House seemed to be the replacement of speakers.

TOUCHING signs of the nation’s mourning over the ill-fated Dana airplane continue, keeping other things in the background. Nigerians are mourning.

TEARS are running. Anger is mounting and experts and pseudo experts are filling every available space with what should be done, what should have been done and what must be done. How long would these last? What would change?

EARLIEST interests in constructing Nigeria’s coastal road, dates back eight decades. The Niger Delta Environmental Survey of 1998 rated the road among development priorities for the Niger Delta Region.

THE most strident argument Central Bank of Nigeria makes for its autonomy – best international practices – is also one of the weakest points, if it is to convince Nigerians it has a right to supervise itself.

THE effort of producing the May 29 presidential address dripped through every line. President Goodluck Jonathan wanted Nigerians to know how hard he had worked in the past year though many think he hardly worked.

POLITICIANS patronise tokenism. They have easy solutions for challenges, no matter how deeply rooted they may be. The attitude is to get obstacles out of the way, even if they re-surface.

NIGERIANS like debates. If you ask, some of them would tell you that it is the most tangible dividend of democracy. There are still debates about what dividends of democracy mean and whether it is only civilians, who can deliver these dividends.