THOSE who think a successful holding of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State would indicate the state of the country’s democratic atmosphere or the readiness of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to effect changes in its operations that would make the results of the 2011 elections more acceptable to the generality of Nigerians are wrong on both assumptions.

JUSTICE Opeyemi Oke, on Wednesday, delivered a N100 million verdict against the Nigerian Navy, four of its ratings and their boss a Rear Admiral.

AFTER 65 days, during which all that Nigerians knew about their President were speculations, the Senate last Wednesday moved a motion asking the President to comply with Section 145 of the Constitution. Today marks the 71st day of the President’s absence. He reportedly receives medical attention in Saudi Arabia.

SOMETHING is mysterious about the sort of greatness our rulers want for Nigeria. What is certain is that their celebrated expertise in creating concentric circles of conspiracies to control the country has resulted in constitutional infractions too obvious to be ignored.

HAITI is getting global attention for reasons other than the more known issues of poverty and poor governance in the tiny Caribbean island the world regales in neglecting its challenges. Some of these challenges are historical, like cruel French colonialists that entrenched the poverty of the island in the ways they skewed the economy.