A popular legend has it that some leaders are born, while others are made. Those born to lead already have their place of privilege reserved just for them at the top the moment they breathe their first lungful of air at birth. Prince William knows that one day, everything being equal, he will be King of England.

WHILE the new media represented by the advent of the internet may have revolutionized access to information flow globally, perhaps nothing underscores this as much as the unfolding Wikileaks phenomenon.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo caused a stir that almost disrupted the Church Service marking the 70th birthday thanksgiving service in honour of a former Managing Director Nigerian Airways, Major-General Olu Bajowa (Rtd) on Monday in Igbotako, area of Ondo State.

Ebenezer Babatope says there is great hope.He believes whatever is happening in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, today would be resolved one way or the other. He says this is important because there may be an implosion in PDP and its consequences would be disastrous.

NIGERIAN Christian leaders in Nigeria are taking advantage of the Yuletide season to offer prayers to God for peaceful elections, while urging Nigerians irrespective of their religion or ethnic inclination, to troop out en masse to register during the Voters’ registration exercise, vote for credible candidates and be ready to make their votes count.

PASTOR Joseph Ayodele Oritsejafor, the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, is a preacher, pastor, evangelist and author with a unique anointing of God upon his life.

AS the Oyo State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala presented a budget proposal of N144. 1 billion to the state House of Assembly, a substantial portion of the budget was devoted to education.

The furore generated by the decision of the Lagos State Government to concession the Lekki-Epe Express Way to a private firm to build and maintain the road has refused to die down.
Once again, residents of the area threatened to stop the State Government from collection of tolls along the express way. The state government, through LCC had recently announced its plans to commence collection of tolls on the newly constructed road from motorists beginning from January 3rd, 2011.

There was palpable excitement among the Peoples’ Democratic Party automatic delegates to the PDP Presidential primaries in the South-west following President Goodluck Jonathan’s meeting with them in Ibadan on Sunday.
That was the fourth meeting in three weeks that the President would be having with South-west delegates ahead of the PDP primaries.

This is a report of the behind the scene intrigues which led to the deal between President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, Chief Anthony Anenih and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, state governors. After heating up their National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting last Tuesday, the same people came back and within an hour resolved their differences and even adding an icing on the cake with the endorsement of Jonathan as the party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election.

THE late Chief Anthony Okotako Enahoro had a truly chequered political history that spanned well over sixty years. During this period, he took off from the Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe political camp as a member of the nationalist National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, NCNC, (he edited some of the newspapers in the Zik Group, though he was never a registered member of the Zikist Movement) and moved to the pro_regionalist Action Group led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

The late elder statesman and Adolor of Uromi Chief Anthony Enahoro was the arrow-head of the agitation against military rule.

Late Elder statesman and front line nationalist, Chief Anthony Eromosele, had a major regret before he died: The inability to enthrone full-blown democracy in the country, a struggle he waged for over 60 years of his life.

We decided to send a delegation to convey our condolences to the family of Chief M.K.O Abiola and to participate actively in the funeral ceremony.

But for WIKILEAKS and its snoopy engagement, Nigerians may never have been treated to the bizarre nature of how their country is being surrogated by mere business concerns. Or, what led to the removal from office, of the national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu?