DE-REGULATION, the public thinks, is another name for price increases without any certainty about improvements in services. While de-regulation has worked with the telecommunications industry, where the issues of power (fuel and energy for industrial, commercial and domestic uses) are concerned, the same factors that made telecommunications a burgeoning success appear to disappear.

THERE are some who succeed only when there is tension. If the country is moving towards peace, they find new noise to heighten the tension. Those who call for sack or change of Ministers are bringing a proposal that has little bearing to the belated efforts to steer the country into some direction. Who will be the new Ministers? Who are their sponsors? What is their motive?

THE dispatch the National Assembly used in applying the Doctrine of Necessity to the declaration of the acting President was impressive and finally gave Nigerians hope that things could be done if the politicians have an interest to protect.

TRAGEDIES like the one in Port Harcourt last week, where at least 10 people died – four from one family – by electrocution are very sad comments about our country, made sadder because they point to the extent of poverty in a country that struts the global stage as if it cared about its peoples.

WE are in the World Cup mode, not mood. It is the difference that has dumped the country at a damnable point on the World Cup curve – Nigeria is searching for a coach less than four months to our June 12 opening game at the World Cup.