NIGER State set a record last month when its State House of Assembly had third speaker in one week! The most important work of the House seemed to be the replacement of speakers.

TOUCHING signs of the nation’s mourning over the ill-fated Dana airplane continue, keeping other things in the background. Nigerians are mourning.

TEARS are running. Anger is mounting and experts and pseudo experts are filling every available space with what should be done, what should have been done and what must be done. How long would these last? What would change?

EARLIEST interests in constructing Nigeria’s coastal road, dates back eight decades. The Niger Delta Environmental Survey of 1998 rated the road among development priorities for the Niger Delta Region.

THE most strident argument Central Bank of Nigeria makes for its autonomy – best international practices – is also one of the weakest points, if it is to convince Nigerians it has a right to supervise itself.

THE effort of producing the May 29 presidential address dripped through every line. President Goodluck Jonathan wanted Nigerians to know how hard he had worked in the past year though many think he hardly worked.

POLITICIANS patronise tokenism. They have easy solutions for challenges, no matter how deeply rooted they may be. The attitude is to get obstacles out of the way, even if they re-surface.

NIGERIANS like debates. If you ask, some of them would tell you that it is the most tangible dividend of democracy. There are still debates about what dividends of democracy mean and whether it is only civilians, who can deliver these dividends.

NIGERIANS scorn scandals. They have seen enough that nothing is new. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo said most legislators were “rogues and armed robbers,” no outrage was expected.

UNICEF did a great disservice to the Nigerian child this year by focusing its State of the Child Report on “urban children” with the Kuramo (Bar) Beach in Lagos as setting of its story on deprivations Nigerian children face.