While the Government of Ogun State is trying to turn the state into the ‘huge construction site’ that it is now, all the federal roads in Ogun are in tatters.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has come of full age in the politics of survival. He seems to have learnt all the tricks in the kitty of political manipulation.

RECENTLY, there has been a lot of news about a police bust up of baby selling homes or cartels, or about people selling their children for a fee.

It is really exciting going through the statistics of the mid-term score card of the House of Representatives under the leadership of Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal. For a recap, the leadership of the House was elected on June 6, 2011 in an atmosphere that has served as a quick reminder of the goodness of team work and promotion of democratic tenets.

MAHATMA Gandhi, referred to by historians and authors as the Father of Modern India, listed the seven blunders of this world as Wealth without Work, Pleasure without Conscience, Knowledge without Character, Commerce without Morality, Science without Humanity, Worship without Sacrifice and Politics without Principles. Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 because this world wanted to live with blunders at whatever the cost.

IN the African socio-cultural milieu, elders occupy positions of honour nurtured by wisdom and experience. As repositories of the culture and tradition of the people, they are often revered, especially by the youth who yearn to drink from their fountain of eternal wisdom in their search for direction in an otherwise treacherous world. In the days of yore, elders are economical with words to the point of taciturnity.

Days ahead of only his third official African visit, analysts are split over whether Barack Obama has been overlooking a golden goose in his ancestral continent or shrewdly dodging a white elephant.

 “I don’t know what to do; I have tried all I can to get fertiliser but it is not available. Even the available ones are too expensive and the season for fertiliser application would soon be over.

THIRDLY, the challenge of Nigeria is not so much the lack of good laws, policies, rules and regulations. The implementation of these ordinances is the problem. The CCS will support other government arms by mobilising its CSOs, their members and volunteers to engage the MDAs.

A TWO-day International Conference on Nigerian Prisons Reforms ended on June 5 at REIZ Continental Hotel Abuja. It was packaged and driven by First Consultancy and Training, a UK-based company.

RIGHT from the advent of Prof. Etete Peters’ administration as the Chief Medical Director of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, media reports on the institution have taken multifarious dimensions. His leadership model has not only saturated the airwaves, but also filled volumes of newspapers and magazines.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established on May 28, 1975 as a regional trade organization comprising countries in the West African sub-region. The aim of setting up the Community was manifested in its original treaty.

Rev Chris Okotie’s article titled, “The Fierce Urgency Of Now” which was published on the back page of the Thisday edition of May17, 2013 showed clearly how corruption and crime conflate to create the present state of siege in Nigeria.

This situation has produced an unfortunate symmetry between poor state of public education and levels of poverty.

ON Thursday, May 30, 2013, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, stirred the polity with a proposal that some people consider controversial: