Today, the classes are overpopulated; yet resulting in an awakening of sort! Buddha called it enlightenment! But, how do we now get maids, cooks, drivers, gardeners and gatemen for export? Now, a majority of Akwa Ibom people are no longer docile; they no longer wallow in self pity. Self worth has returned and if that isn’t a wrong on Akpabio’s part, then my mother isn’t 16!

With respect to the Transparency International (TI) rating, it is very useful not only for this country but for the whole world to see how endemic corruption is. In spite the various anti-corruption activities including lectures, laws, policies and directives, the general situation gives us the impression that we are not succeeding. And I believe we are not succeeding because there is a fundamental issue we have refused to tackle; and that is our political cum economic system.

*Insists evil will continue to triumph except.. *Reveals: I expected the worst from detractors *Explains: ‘Why other opponents have targeted me’ Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the 2010 Anambra governorship polls, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, in this interview speaks on his emergence as the […]

The people leaving the party are leaving because they can no longer tolerate the dictatorship of one
person in Edo state PDP

An attempt by the revenge coup perpetrators to justify the killing of General Aguiyi-Ironsi by linking him with the January 15 failed coup is not accepted by Peter Enahoro’s account. He says that the General was in fact marked down for elimination by If eajuna and that one man that could have exonerated Aguiyi-Ironsi was the Inspector-General of Police, the late Alhaji Kam Salem who the author says telephoned the military commander to inform him that the police were reporting usual troop movements in Lagos.

On assumption of office May 29, 2007 as Nigeria’s third democratically elected President, Alhaji Umar Musa Yar’Adua made adherence to the rule of law a mantra of his administration. It was a needed breather considering the raw deal the polity had under his predecessor, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. For the eight years of his rule, Obasanjo stood the time honoured tenet of democracy on its head. On countless occasions, the constitution was flagrantly trampled on.

Who do you think is really in charge now that President Yar’Adua could not satisfy the constitutional requirement of writing to the National Assembly before travelling to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment?

Former Anambra State governor Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju needs no introduction. He was the governor who had to fight to keep his seat as chief executive of the state from the first day he came to power.

Governing Ogun State was not a serious challenge to me having managed successfully three major newspapers in this country: The Nigerian Herald, The Sketch and then came as managing director of Daily Times, which was the highest point of my career.

Only God and perhaps some of the principal actors in the crisis that rocked the National Assembly prior to last Tuesday’s presentation of the 2010 budget can confirm if the whole brouhaha was indeed a farce.