Lamentation song, pure and simple. The meeting was called to examine the failure of the North to stop President Goodluck Jonathan. But for a better part of the over two hours spent at the meeting, it was all about lamentation, about what ought to have been done but which was not done, things not meant to be done but which were done.

Only few Nigerians would have been spectacularly positioned as Chief Nduka Irabor, the former journalist who served a prison sentence for publishing an exclusive story to champion open access to official documents.

DISTURBED by the regularity at which bomb explosions are now rocking parts of the country and the attendant loss of avoidable lives and property, some eminent Nigerians have urged President Goodluck Jonathan to find solutions to the problem if he wants socio-economic development to take root in the country.

NIGERIA’s economic potential is well known. The country’s considerable resource endowment and coastal location ordinarily should allow the emergence of a strong growth pole for sub-Saharan Africa. Over the years, Nigeria has realised very little of this potential. Instead, its history has been marked by economic stagnation and associated with declining welfare and social instability.

Undoubtedly, Governor Babatunde Fashola’s first term administration of Lagos State remains a reference point for good governance in Nigeria’s current democratic dispensation.