NIGERIAN governments should be ashamed of their attitude towards the future of the country. This attitude is not entirely surprising since governments are fully interested only in the present as it affects them and their cronies.

THE festive period is special for the police. It shows in the number of roadblocks mounted to extort money and cause further inconveniences for road users.

AT a time of debates about wastes at the National Assembly, the Federal Government has weighed in powerfully with a N299 billion over expenditure of the 2010 budget – and that is only in the third quarter.

NOTORIETY has its place as the death of Obioma Nwankwo, also known as Osisikankwu, shows. Why the jubilations? Why the expectation that the death of this individual will mark the end of kidnapping and criminality in Abia State ?
Expectations like these minimise the depth of challenges from the social complications of a problem that was left for too long.

STATE universities in the South East have been shut since July. Re-opening them is not a priority. The five South East governors have jointly agreed that thousands of students in these universities should be at home, as they tango with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over pay and the low level of infrastructure in the schools.

WHOEVER is telling Nigerians that some of the INEC direct data capturing machines stolen at the Lagos airport have been recovered is missing the point about the theft. Even promises that the rest will be found do not compensate for the implications of this incident for the 2011 elections.

IT is one thing for the public to admit the war against corruption is lost (some say it never begun); it is another for a top anti_corruption chief to accept the efforts to date are futile.

A THIRD attempt in 15 years at multi-party elections is running into the same contentions that attended earlier efforts.

EACH time the government officials speak, they exhibit their distance from the realities Nigerians face. They are not in touch with the people who they claim to represent and on whose behalf they supposedly act.

EVEN in conventional wars, there is emphasis on the safety of civilian population. Enough intelligence is gathered to isolate and attack the target.