FOR the police, the main issue is the name for the explosion that killed eight and injured scores of others in Kaduna. Traders, who survived the incident, gave detailed accounts of how the bombers arrived on a motorcycle for their deadly operation.

THERE is a side to the proposed increase of prices of petroleum products that government glosses over to keep focus on increasing prices next year. This aspect is about electricity, which remains a challenge to living in Nigeria.

LAMENTATIONS about poverty are becoming rituals that issue from most gatherings of the North’s leadership.

Fortunately, enough voices within the North blame the region for failing to use 38 years of leading national governments to develop the North. Governor Aliyu Babangida of Niger State shifts the blame to traditional rulers, who he said discourage education.

SOMALIA represents everything about failure. It is the epitome of a failed state. Since the exit of General Said Barre’s government 20 years ago – he later died in Nigeria – Somalia has had no central government. Warlords carve out their space and impose their authority.

THE importance of job creation to reduce the scourge of unemployment seems to have dawned heavily on later day political leaders. About three years ago, former Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State launched an ambitious jobs scheme aimed at recruiting 10,000 new hands into the state’s teaching and civil services.

Fuel Subsidy ‘Beneficiaries’THE Senate’s probe of the obvious abuses that surround expenditures on importation of petroleum products will be a waste of time without a focus. What is the Senate probing? What does it intend to achieve?

UNIVERSITY lecturers in Nigeria, through the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have created for themselves an image of group whose sole interest is strikes. ASUU has started another strike, which it says would be “total and comprehensive.”

SUDDENLY, Britain, Canada, and human rights group are openly interested in Nigeria. The issue is the same sex bill that the Senate has passed. They consider it anti-people; they want to punish Nigeria for it.

NIGERIANS ignore threats. Ask General Sani Abacha, or those who advised him that he could rule with threats. Nigerians have seen too many governments (19 in 51 years – an average of a new government every two and half years) that threats that the country would collapse unless President Goodluck Jonathan increased prices of petroleum products would be regarded as regular fare.

NOTHING is new in Goodluck Jonathan’s claim that God made him President of Nigeria. We are used to leaders who resort to the Almighty as cover for their actions, particularly when they face opposition for anti-people policies.

THE Ministry of Power must have known that something was wrong with the deployment of the military to its installations for it to offer an explanation of the decision that has added to the tension between it and its workers.

ANYONE would be right to wonder what the police do. The rising number of bank robberies and their regularity should be of concern to the authorities who need to act decisively and quickly.

THE anti-corruption campaign engaged a long awaited new gear with the sack of Mrs. Farida Waziri chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. There are no indications that the change in leadership had anything to do with any effort to re-invigorate a flagging fight.

THE youthful Minister of Youth Bolaji Abdullahi has threatened to stop posting of members of the National Youth Service Corps to private firms. The threat would be effected next year. He is angry that such firms rely on a regular supply of NYSC members who they use as cheap labour.

NEWS that more than N1.6 billion that should have gone into combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria could be missing or might have been misappropriated, should sadden anyone who has an idea of the challenges of Nigerians who suffer any of these pandemics.