DEATH of two top security officials in two cities within two days may be a cause of concerns to the authorities but the approach to investigating them seems to suggest the killers may never be found, and their motive would remain a riddle.

ONE thing is guaranteed about the 2011 elections – like ones before them, they will be controversial. As if that guarantee should not be challenging enough for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, it has dabbled into the tenure of some governors which did not begin with others on 29 May 2007.

LAST year, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo drew attention to the enormous powers Governors held because State Houses of Assembly were not strong enough to control them. He said governors had become emperors.

JUST think for a second what the world would be without teachers. As the images rush through your mind, think again about the treatment teachers get from us individually, and from their employers, especially governments.

THE Supreme Court five years ago annulled some sections of the Monitoring of Revenue Allocation To Local Governments Act 2005 that awarded the Auditor-General of the Federation powers to monitor the use of funds allocated to the local government areas.