UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won another six-year term to add to the 24 years he has been the country’s maximum ruler. Rioters are resisting him, but he lives above reality, boasting of new laws that will chain the opposition and deny bails to rioters. He claims he will not be forced out of office.

DR. Magnus Kpakol, Senior Special Assistant to the President and National Coordinator of National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, says 80 million Nigerians live below the poverty line.

CEMENT has been expensive for more than three years. The recent interests in the cost of cement is just the same type of fleeting attention that enduring challenges receive from our leaders. Distributors, bad roads, high cost of electricity, taxes, multiple levies, insufficient supply, and panic buying are the combined causes of persistent high price of cement.

THE politicians are at it again. Winners and losers are coalescing into a platform called government of national unity, all to ensure they get value for themselves.

WE are under the impression the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, makes its policies in the interest of the people. Our shock at the haste towards a cashless economy centres on this impression.

UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won another six-year term to add to the 24 years he has been the country’s maximum ruler. Rioters are resisting him, but he lives above reality, boasting of new laws that will chain the opposition and deny bails to rioters. He claims he will not be forced out of office.

GOVERNMENT of the people in power, for the people in power and for their powerful friends, may be another definition of democracy, if the peoples’ only place in government is to vote, for candidates of their choice.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is at a crucial time in rummaging through the list of nominees from which he would choose 42, or so, Ministers. They would be the men and women to lead Nigeria through the critical processes to 2020, when Nigeria wants to be among the top 20 economies in the world.

THE insensitivity of Governor Isa Yuguda’s remarks about National Youth Service Corps members killed in his state is worsened by his lame attempt to deny the comments, a denial that confirmed the governor really uttered those words at a time families are mourning over the senseless killing of their wards.

FOUR years after he failed to perpetuate himself in office, Olusegun Obasanjo is explaining why African leaders are reluctant to leave office. He should know, considering that he did everything not to leave, until Nigerians shut the door on him.

NOTHING is new about all the noise made over women’s representation in elective political offices. At a point, it seemed that there was a law reserving 35 per cent of the elective positions for women.

THE applauses that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been getting, says something for the minimal standards under which we operate. People have mostly aligned with the provision of the Electoral Act where “substantial compliance” is acceptable.

WHEN most people thought the United States had given up the chase on Osama bin Laden, reputed leader of al-Qaeda, President Barack Obama announced that US forces shot him dead on Sunday in the Bilal area of Abbottabad, about 97km north of Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.

MANY Nigerians may not know about the National Automotive Council of Nigeria, NAC, though the organisation is 18 years old. Its mandate is to harness resources to enhance local manufacturing of vehicles in Nigeria.

AS organised labour marched yesterday in celebration of Workers’ Day, top on the agenda was the implementation of the N18, 000 minimum wage that some States claim they cannot pay. Labour has lamented the impoverishment of workers over the years. It has done little else.