WHEN little men with modest imagination, originality and creative depth are transposed to the high public offices they generally assume their idiosyncrasies to be existential social reality and consequently invade the public space with beguiled vanity and mediocrity.

GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, who for five months was out of circulation on health grounds, has now proved to be a far better handler of human and public relations than his aides paid from the public treasury to manage his reputation.

AS a build-up to the general elections, merger talks among key opposition political parties in Nigeria appear to have reached an advanced stage, going by the recent moves and comments emanating from concerned stakeholders involved in the plan to oust the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

I AM always in a quagmire between Free Market Economy, FME and Government Social Responsibility, GSR. It is like standing between the devil and the deep blue sea.

As the Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, clocks four years in office, his popularity has continued to soar even though he has himself not sought it.

THE financing of these community development efforts is invariably from contributions and levies from individual community members – at home and abroad -who consider such contributions as obligatory socio-cultural and filial responsibilities.

CONSEQUENT on this, development is permeating these areas at an accelerated pace.

IT is a fact that a drowning man will not like to go down alone; rather, he will be desperate to pull others down with him, if it is possible. But where this appears impossible, he is more likely to be left confused, frustrated and helpless.

IS Goodluck Jonathan responsible for 50 years of decay? Under the Jonathan administration, Nigeria is on the pathway of recovery of wasted years.

President Goodluck Jonathan last year launch the Financial Inclusion Strategy for the country which provided a road map for developing an inclusive financial system.

ONE of the most virulent ills that our country is facing today is corruption. Unless we recognise the full extent to which corruption, abuse of office and all sorts of plunder of national resources is responsible for our poverty as a nation, we will not be able to develop to our full potential.

IS Goodluck Jonathan responsible for 50 years of decay? Under the Jonathan administration, Nigeria is on the pathway of recovery of wasted years.

IT asked the court to stop NEC from conducting the election on June 12. And the court did just that!

THE search for a more effective and accountable governance system in Nigeria continues with the current efforts at the national level to review and amend the 1999 Nigerian Constitution.

THE nation’s strive for a corrupt-free polity suffered a great set-back with the unpopular sentence meted-out to the former official of the Police Pension Board, John Yakubu Yusufu, who was given a two-year sentence on each of the three-count charge with an option of paying a fine of N750, 000, an amount the convict shamefully and promptly paid to regain his freedom.