LITTLE can be done about security without the police. All the little security appendages that have been created over the years have only weakened the police on several fronts – less funding, and less political will to reform the police to standards that will serve the country well.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is providing leadership by words. His prescriptions for surviving the plain and plentiful pain that increasing the price of petrol will cause are examples of how he leads us. Our President is out of touch with Nigerians – it shows.

THE launching of an electric car that the students of Makerere University made has a ringing message for Nigeria on two fronts. The car – Kiira EV – will not run on petrol; it uses batteries and the university is not on strike, but runs its shoestring research budget well.

FOR the police, the main issue is the name for the explosion that killed eight and injured scores of others in Kaduna. Traders, who survived the incident, gave detailed accounts of how the bombers arrived on a motorcycle for their deadly operation.

THERE is a side to the proposed increase of prices of petroleum products that government glosses over to keep focus on increasing prices next year. This aspect is about electricity, which remains a challenge to living in Nigeria.