NIGERIA is already over-armed. Some of the arms are in wrong hands or being put into wrong uses. Militants, criminals, kidnappers have enough arms to challenge the authority of governments all over the country.

IF you are a fervent follower of events in Edo State House of Assembly, you would think the legislators were being paid to exhibit their stale boxing skills. Last week, the hospitals in Benin City were busy receiving victims of the most recent flurry of punches unleashed in a gathering that is supposed to make laws for the good governance of the State.

AS Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier- General Maharazu Ismaila Tsiga is bound to protect interests in the NYSC, which at the moment are waning.

THE enthusiastic expectation of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s return from his medical trip to Saudi Arabia has been eclipsed by the silence about the state of his health even after an ambulance took him to the Presidential Villa on Wednesday morning.

SOME groups in Akwa Ibom State are re_inventing kidnapping, at a time the penalty for the crime in the State is death sentence and kidnapping is on the decline elsewhere.

LAST week’s coup in Niger, Nigeria’s northern neighbour, had been foretold since 2008, when 72_year_old Mamadou Tandja began manipulating the constitution to ensure he was in power forever.

Northernising poverty minimises the scope of the challenges, stigmatises the North and deludes others that they are better than the North.

DE-REGULATION, the public thinks, is another name for price increases without any certainty about improvements in services. While de-regulation has worked with the telecommunications industry, where the issues of power (fuel and energy for industrial, commercial and domestic uses) are concerned, the same factors that made telecommunications a burgeoning success appear to disappear.

THERE are some who succeed only when there is tension. If the country is moving towards peace, they find new noise to heighten the tension. Those who call for sack or change of Ministers are bringing a proposal that has little bearing to the belated efforts to steer the country into some direction. Who will be the new Ministers? Who are their sponsors? What is their motive?

THE dispatch the National Assembly used in applying the Doctrine of Necessity to the declaration of the acting President was impressive and finally gave Nigerians hope that things could be done if the politicians have an interest to protect.

TRAGEDIES like the one in Port Harcourt last week, where at least 10 people died – four from one family – by electrocution are very sad comments about our country, made sadder because they point to the extent of poverty in a country that struts the global stage as if it cared about its peoples.

WE are in the World Cup mode, not mood. It is the difference that has dumped the country at a damnable point on the World Cup curve – Nigeria is searching for a coach less than four months to our June 12 opening game at the World Cup.

CHIEF Michael Kaase Aondoakaa, former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation would require sometime to comprehend his descent from the summit of his political sphere to a tiny place where he is meant to be forgotten quickly.

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.