We have always said what we have on (the) ground (the Presidential Amnesty Programme) is successful.

We really don’t understand you fellow shareholders, including those of you in hallowed chambers. Contrary to your insinuations, we are no rivals, hatchet-men or attack dogs.

PROFESSOR Jerry Gana is a man of all seasons. He has impacted the thought of many Nigerians with all the national assignments he has been made to manage; from civil service to politics.

WRITING on the recent series of demolition of illegal shanties at the bridgehead, Onitsha, Emmanuel Obe of the PUNCH Newspaper (Saturday Punch of January 19, 2013, page 14), among other things, stated thus: “Tales of woe and despondency hung in the air as bulldozers deployed by the Anambra State Government roared through all the markets on the River Niger bridgehead end of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway some days ago”.

IT is a matter of great concern to note the announcement by the Federal Government to spend N60b to purchase ten million phones for farmers.

I MUST clarify from the onset that I am a lawyer, not a journalist. So, I do not have any background in the journalism profession.

THIS is a fact that many know, but which is hardly acknowledged. In reviewing the trajectory of countries like the USA, Japan, Norway, Germany, Britain, Singapore, and now Brazil and India, the role of qualitative human capital in their advancement and in upholding their successes today as rich societies cannot be overlooked. In the political terrain, decisions on human capital development are even more difficult.

THE internet is the eighth wonder of the world. It has erased the borders of nations, closed the gap of time and space, removed the veil of privacy and turned the world into a global village. No invention has affected humanity and impacted the way we live and work like the internet.

Whenever the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, announces that some venture or other is to be privatised, there is the feeling that the FGN is about to give away something of substantial value for very little in return. Our suspicions, that a great game is on, are heightened when we observe the relatively short period within which bids should be submitted.

IN 2012, very few state workers were beneficiaries from the scheme, as states are allowed to enact their own laws since the PRA 2004 is not binding on them.

I WAS in Asaba sometime in August last year to get an impression of the city and the state.

DESPITE the hues and cries, our senior citizens continue to suffer and wallow in abject poverty, daily.

HE does not strike you as desperate. At least that is the general impression of the man. He is also has control over his emotions as he rarely betrays anxiety.

A WRITTEN constitution is not a prerequisite for democracy. Not surprisingly, some flourishing democracies have no written constitution and some failed democracies had some wonderfully crafted constitutions.

THE senseless, brutal killings of four students of the University of Port Harcourt by mobsters, last October, sadly warns the practice of “Jungle Justice” is so flourished in Nigeria that an evasive shout of “thief, thief” has become a combustible alarm sounded by insolvent debtors to consume their creditors.