THE occasion was auspicious. The personalities were news-creators from diverse critical government ministries, department and agencies, MDAs and the host is the Embassy of the United States of America in Nigeria.

IN his 2013 budget speech proposal to the National Assembly three weeks ago, President Goodluck Jonathan had set $75 as the upper limit benchmark for oil price. The House of Representatives is pushing for $80.

DR ABUBAKAR Olusola Saraki (Waziri Ilorin), a university of London medical doctor graduate was an epitome of selflessness commitment characterized by democratic zeal. He was mistaken to have ventured into politics by accident but it was instinctive. He was so predetermined by nature, going by the enormous success and many lives he touched in his life of politics than in the field of medicine.

THE Anglo-American society think that leaders should be held to the highest behavioural standards so that they can be an example to the nation to avoid gutter behaviour. Leadership is a brand, and needs to be maintained at the highest moral standards.

THE unexpected resignation of General David Patreaus recently as the head of the CIA came as a rude shock to Americans and the world given his impeccable record as a distinguished Military Commander.

CHIEF Sunday Awoniyi died five years ago aged 75 in a Londonhospital two weeks after he had an accident on the Kaduna-Abuja expressway on November 28, 2007.

NDUBUISI Ugah’s analysis titled “APGA’s Unending Crisis”(THISDAY-Tuesday , November 27,2012) made interesting reading because of so many reasons.

OFFICIALLY, the police service commission of Nigeria is said to be the civilian oversight body established under the Nigerian constitution for the Nigerian Police Force.

IN the past, leaders in Nigeria have failed the people, too much promises, less action and that is the reason why an average Nigerian today hardly has any confidence in their leaders.

If there are indices to measure how low we have sunk into in matters of leadership in Nigeria for years now, I think the conditions of Lagos – Ibadan-Shagamu – Benin , Onitsha – Enugu , Enugu – Port Harcourt expressways etc will tell the story better.

RECENT criticisms in the polity, generated by the increasing number of our religious leaders acquiring aircraft, should be expected.

It was one of those early winter evenings in London. Windy and very cold, despite the absence of snow.

Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, of Kaduna State graduated from the famous Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria in 1972 with a degree in Public Administration.

Today, in the Caliphate city of Sokoto, Nigeria’s Number Four citizen and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, will be conferred with a honourary doctorate degree by one of the country’s premier institutions of higher learning, the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS).

TWENTY three years after Nigeria’s independence was an era that witnessed huge capital investments by the Federal Government to lay the foundation for a strong and vibrant economy.