OBASANJO bashers should not celebrate Monday’s attack on former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. It does not matter how much they love to hate the man.

A FEDERAL High Court decision that annulled amendments to the 1999 Constitution may be the initial descent to constitutional anarchy, unless parties to the dispute abide by a judicial ruling on processes for amending the Constitution.

NEWSPAPER headlines have blazoned threats from the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress to shut down Nigeria today with a warning strike over a new national minimum wage.

OVER the past weeks, the media has reported the Federal Government’s justifications for establishing the National Guard. The main reason is to tackle Nigeria’s ever-growing security challenges. This is the second time a national security outfit going by this name has been mulled.

WE may never know how much Corporate Nigeria , an irritating organisation that impetuously springs to life at the approach of a presidential election, contributed to the 29 October Jonathan-Sambo fund raising dinner.

OLADIMEJI Saburi Bankole, already has history on his side as the youngest person, at 37, to become the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to that credential may be added the fact that he has had the most stormy reign while at it, yet he exhibits an inexhaustible capacity to weather more storms.

THE Federal Government’s drive to privatise and commercialise the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, through a massive unbundling into 18 firms has always been greeted with apprehension and threats of industrial disruption and social unrests by the workers of the public-owned company.

ONE of the most dangerous things about imagination is that one can stretch it limitlessly. Imagination abhors boundaries, what is required to extend it is the capacity of the individual to visualise the matter in contention.

ANYONE who has an idea of the types of weapons that were imported illegally through Apapa Wharf in Lagos last week, would be alarmed by the quantity as well as the sophistication of the collection. The security agencies investigating the intercepted weapons would also be concerned about the brazenness of the importers which raises questions.

MUCH criticism has attended the performance of the electoral tribunals throughout the country. The anger of those who lose is well noted, especially when they have to contend with wasted resources and their lost expectations pinned on cases, which sometimes look good enough for judges to grant them favourable verdicts.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is the largest and perhaps the best financed political party in Nigeria. Its members hyperbolically refer to it as the largest political party in Africa given its pervasive influence and spread.

THERE is no doubt that corruption is a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabrics of Nigerian body politics. No institution, both public and private is spared this spectre that is yawning menacingly at our polity. Over the years, the nation’s rating in corruption perception index on international scale has dropped drastically.

LOANS are wonderful financial instruments, depending on who is borrowing, the lender, the purpose of the loans, and the sincerity of those who are proposing them.

PROFESSOR Aliyu Babatunde Fafunwa, former Minister of Education died at 87, yet the mourning of his passing on was like that one who departed too early.

ABA and Onitsha are cities in the South-East of Nigeria with an importance that sets them apart. They have never been regional or even state capitals, yet they tower above most of the “A” grade urban metropolises in Nigeria, most of which enjoy the status of political capitals.