SECURITY people get away with anything under the pretence that they have more information than the public. Where this ploy fails, they become vicious, searching for soft targets on which to vent their anger.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan remains a surprise. He was not different on Friday when he broke his long silence on the disputation between him and Bayelsa State Governor Chief Timipre Sylva. It was all about a hotel, an un-built hotel.

FOR years, Nigerians have been desirous of a quick fix for the challenges the country faces. They range from the economy to security. All these challenges are related to the constitutional contraptions that replaced the regional governments that operated until the military intervention in 1966.

TWO governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria – one serving, one retired – have justifications for Boko Haram’s unleashing of bombs on Nigeria. Without those reasons, the bombing would presumably stop.

THE $200 million new headquarters of the African Union – a gift from China – is another confirmation of the continent’s inability to get things done by itself. Almost 50 years after the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, OAU, the AU’s forebear, the continent could not afford the AU’s new edifice that has cast a permanent role for China in Africa.