RURAL Nigeria, ordinarily, does not have the best conditions for sustainable living. When the tasking conditions bear extra burdens from the worst flooding in more than four decades, the results are the stories of woes from different parts of Nigeria.

THE Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership — the world’s biggest individual prize — was not awarded for a third time in four years as no suitable candidates were found, it was announced Monday.

TWO issues are distracting the Ghanaian general elections that are 44 days away – the disqualification of former first lady, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, of the newly formed National Democratic Party, NDP, and electronic registration of voters that went a further step by asking prospective voters to verify their details by SMS.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan knows about renewed hope. “I bring to you today, a message of renewed hope and faith in the immense possibilities that lie ahead,” he told Nigerians in his 52nd independence anniversary broadcast.

JUSTICE U. P. Kekemeke of an Abuja High Court last week delivered a judgment that should halt security agencies that make brutalising people their duty.

THE House of Representatives is giving Nigerians an opportunity to participate in amending the 1999 Constitution. It is a novel idea billed to hold from 10am on Monday November 5 in all 360 federal constituencies of the country.

FORMER Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmadu Ali, has been many things – Director General, South South Health Delivery Services, Senator, Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, federal Commissioner for Education in 1976, a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army, and a medical doctor trained at the University of Ibadan.

FOR the third time in four years, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which recognises and celebrates excellence in African leadership, did not find an African leader worthy of the Mo Ibrahim Prize.

A MAJOR attempt to draw attention to the increasing cases of kidney failure in Nigeria five years ago, failed. Dr. Augustine Ohwovoriole, President, Diabetic Association of Nigeria had in the light of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s hospitalisation in Germany said there was projected annual growth rate of six to eight per cent in renal failure.

JUSTICE U. P. Kekemeke of an Abuja High Court last week delivered a judgment that should halt security agencies that make brutalising people their duty.