LAST February when the tiff between Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, became public, Salami had predicted, “chained reactions.” In a February 4 letter, he warned Katsina-Alu not to create a “dangerous precedent which may give rise to chained reactions.”

THE best ploys in defence are to stick to your story and more importantly blame others. President Goodluck Jonathan is applying both in his comments on the proposal to hand the president and governors a six-year tenure. There is a sweetener that will sell the proposal – the legislature will also get a modified tenure.

SIRENS can be expensive as Mrs. Endurance Odubu, wife of the Deputy Governor of Edo State has discovered. A Federal High Court in Benin City ordered her to pay N12 million as damages to Captain Olorunduyilemi Stephen, an officer with the 4th Brigade of the Nigerian Army.

EVERYTHING sounds good if we find enough words to clothe them. Words are never in short supply. The new direction of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, that claims Nigeria’s foreign policy will henceforth be investment-driven, glowing, as it seems, fails woefully to show the smallest appreciation of actions that will attract investment.

IT always starts as a joke, grows into a yoke and finally the authorities jostle with the idea until it throws the country into a frenzy. Whether with the military or civilians, speculations about tenure elongation have unfortunately become part of our national life, a major distraction that holds the country hostage until either the promoters of the ideas are tired or defeated.