IN recent times, there have been calls for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to scrap the grants it gives to registered political parties. The National Assembly appears to be moving in the direction of amending the constitution to remove the clauses that enjoin the Commission to give out these grants.

At a time when Nigeria suffers great image problems and humiliation of its citizens both within and outside the continent of Africa, Nigerians living in the Diaspora have continued to show the world that we are indeed, a rare breed through acts of creativity and breakthroughs in arts and sciences.

MOST Nigerians will agree that the invitation extended to Nigeria by Canada to attend the G20 World Economic Summit coming up in that country later this month is good news. In April 2009 when the event took place in London and the country was not on the list of invitees, late President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua openly lamented over it.

Explaining the suspension of the two French speaking countries, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Idi Hong, declared: “ Niger and Guinea remain suspended from ECOWAS in line with relevant provisions of the ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance and the African Union Constitutive Act of 2000 until constitutional order is restored in the two countries”.

THE recent pardon and rehabilitation of the pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has been the subject of heated public debates, just as anything to do with the former anti-corruption tzar is wont to.