WHY is there sudden silence about Anambra? Is it over disappointment that Ndi Anambra deflected national expectation, promoted to international proportions, that the gubernatorial election would prove again that Anambra State was not amenable to democratic ethos?

THE National Assembly proved Tuesday it knew what to do, to resolve the political logjam that besieged the nation since last November 23, when the President went on indeterminate medical vacation.

THE Federal Government has again proven it prefers words to deeds in critical matters affecting the country. The Jos crisis is one. In 11 years of civil rule, there have been at least five riots in Plateau State, with four of them in Jos alone. Under Obasanjo the solution was a state of emergency that […]

A citizen of Nigeria of a particular community, ethnic group, place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion shall not, by reason only that he is such a person be subjected expressly by, or in the practical application of, any law in force in Nigeria or any executive or administrative action of the government, to disabilities or restrictions to which citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinion are not made subject. – Section 42 (1a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

SUGGESTIONS that Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua intends to return to office soon bear out fears that in Nigeria, power is everything.

THOSE who think a successful holding of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State would indicate the state of the country’s democratic atmosphere or the readiness of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to effect changes in its operations that would make the results of the 2011 elections more acceptable to the generality of Nigerians are wrong on both assumptions.

JUSTICE Opeyemi Oke, on Wednesday, delivered a N100 million verdict against the Nigerian Navy, four of its ratings and their boss a Rear Admiral.

AFTER 65 days, during which all that Nigerians knew about their President were speculations, the Senate last Wednesday moved a motion asking the President to comply with Section 145 of the Constitution. Today marks the 71st day of the President’s absence. He reportedly receives medical attention in Saudi Arabia.

SOMETHING is mysterious about the sort of greatness our rulers want for Nigeria. What is certain is that their celebrated expertise in creating concentric circles of conspiracies to control the country has resulted in constitutional infractions too obvious to be ignored.

HAITI is getting global attention for reasons other than the more known issues of poverty and poor governance in the tiny Caribbean island the world regales in neglecting its challenges. Some of these challenges are historical, like cruel French colonialists that entrenched the poverty of the island in the ways they skewed the economy.

IF everything fails, blame the confusionists. This appears to be the Federal Government’s latest tactics in trying to rescue what it can of the sinking image of the government. It is too obvious that there is something wrong with the way it is running; more like not running.

AHMADU Ali, has been many things – former Chairman of the PDP, former Director General, South South Health Delivery Services, former Senator, former Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, former Commissioner for Education, a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army, and a medical doctor trained at the University of Ibadan.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo likes to call God’s name with seemingly frightening irreverence. He is calling down curses on himself in a matter Nigerians thought was well known – that Obasanjo personally insisted Umaru Musa Yar’Adua would succeed him as Nigeria’s President.

THERE is no shortage of suggestions about the problems with Nigeria, and even Nigerians. One major ingredient that has been lacking in the Nigerian situation is leadership – the type that would provide purposeful direction for Nigerians. A shortage of such leadership exists where it matters most, the presidency. When the President returns, he would […]

IT is defeatist to look at riots as if they were indigenous to Jos, the Plateau State capital, which has had an unfair share of them. Riots, unrests, and variants of them, have become common Nigerian ways of expressing their anger at a federation that does not work.