HYPOCRISY is the stream on which international diplomacy runs. Some of the so-called super powers relish their expertise in the deceit that forms the wheels of diplomacy. They have succeeded for more than three decades with the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, SADR, also called Western Sahara, is known as Africa’s last remaining colony.

NIGERIANS, who thought 10-year-old used cars were too old, unsafe and mere junk, will see worse contraptions on our roads with the Federal Government’s extension of age imported used vehicles to 15 years. The decision is baffling; it lacks all considerations that informed earlier positions.

NIGERIANS are interested in knowing when Nigerian candidates for the 2010 election will emerge. There are many candidates with campaigns that proudly display their identity as sectional candidates. They are out to represent sectional interests.

THE World AIDS Day rolled by yesterday. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has set aside December 1 yearly, to train global attention on the dreaded disease called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS and Human Immuno Deficiency Virus, HIV.

A LITTLE over one year after the amnesty programme of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua went into effect, with hundreds of ex-militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, surrendering their weapons to the federal authorities, the nation seems to be sliding to square one.