Leadership in any democracy is dependent on the internal structure of the political parties and their ability to gather and marshal opinions. So, the leadership role is played by organisations, the political parties essentially who must present candidates and of course the opinions of the media and the civil society all matter in leadership.

Fatai, had boarded a vehicle right from his Ikorodu abode to Adeniji-Adele with the intention of ending what he termed, ‘a life filled with woes’ when a good Samaritan quickly intervened and saved his life. He reportedly attempted to jump from the Third Mainland Bridge into the lagoon, over what he described as his inability to cater for his family, particularly his eight-month -old son whom he said had been suffering from a strange ailment.

The truth is that no nation worth its salt would stand idly and watch as a group or groups of people under whatever guise, plunder, ruin, destroy and kill its sources of survival or threaten to bring it down simply because they were agitating against marginalization or because they feel they must take what rightly belongs to them by force.

According to some of them who claim to be leaders of the community, the razing of Igwe’s houses and others were a sort of reprisals for an alleged killing of the five members of the community. Three people in the community namely, Odua Ogum Obidinna, Damian Azuka and Fidelis Imegwu said at Ogwuikpele: “On the night of May 5, 2010, some strange faces believed to be thugs entered the community in a boat.

Crime Guard learnt that the fight degenerated to a stage where each of the parties used broken bottles to carve out huge chunks of flesh from their bodies while blood flowed freely from their deep wounds. At a stage, Bassey, the elderly one who was reportedly bleeding from a deep gush on his neck, went to a nearby bench to rest before continuing with the fight only for him to slump on the bench. He reportedly died in that sitting position.

THE arrest recently at the Murtala Mu-hammed International airport, Ikeja Lagos of one Patrick Ene a drug deportee who had served a jail term for drug offences in far away Afghanistan has been viewed as ‘strange’ by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

IT IS certainly a tragedy shrouded in mystery. For how else can one describe the difficult-to-explain death of three men inside a six-feet deep soak-away tank in Garriki Area of Enugu in Enugu South Local Government Area last weekend.

Far too many people may naively think that the death of former President Umaru Yar’Adua has cooled the political temperature which was substantially elevated because of his ill health. Nothing can be farther from the truth.

It was Francis Bacon, the 16th Century English Philosopher who once talked about the phenomenon of a wise man who made more and better opportunities than he met in his world.

Since the Court of Appeal in Enugu returned Alphonsus Ubanese Igbeke as the duly elected Senator for Anambra North Senatorial District, the controversy has centred on whether or not the Senate was right to delay his assumption of the respected seat.