The aviation sector best explains the scenario. For example, it is difficult for the domestic airlines to afford new and functional planes because they don’t have the financial muscle and so they buy relatively cheap and very old aircraft.

SENATOR Gyang Dalyop Dantong may just become the most famous politician from Plateau State, not for reasons many easily think. His new status has a lot to do with how he died, but more to do with his roots, which are firmly found in his Berom kindred.

IN the last one week, Edo people have been treated to what charitably may go for a circus show. Adams Oshiomhole, the Comrade-Governor and gaffe impresario, who is better known for his provocative, if not outright inane public utterances, came from the blues and declared as unaccepted, the opposition parties’ proposition that youth corps members serving in the state might not to be fair umpires and therefore should not be used as electoral officers in Saturday’s governorship election.

IN the next few days the territory of Nigeria which President Goodluck Jonathan swore as Commander-in-Chief to defend may shrink by several hundreds of square kilometres; almost the equivalent of a state. And this is vital territory in the oil-rich Bakassi region of the Gulf of Guinea.

THE secondary schools which were mainly mission, community and private were now denied the great capital and recurrent funds and the very significant unpaid man-power inputs which used to flow into the system from the missions and voluntary agencies.

ALADINMA’S proclamation,Daily Sun, Thursday, June 21, 2012 made interesting reading. We note and appreciate Aladinma’s burning desire to establish or nurture cordial relationships between Ndigbo and the South-South peoples of Nigeria. But we do think that such cordiality should not be founded on falsehood, outright misrepresentation and misinterpretation of history.

I have been following the campaigns of both the ACN and the PDP with keen interest for obvious reasons. Curiously, the PDP has not said Adams Oshiomhole didn’t perform in his first term.

I HAVE enjoyed seeing and feeling the warmth of joyful re-union amongst old friends. How wonderful to recall when we all were thrown together in the innocence of early youth, coming from different parts of the country, and from different family backgrounds, how through empathy and chemistry we quickly bonded together to establish strong abiding life-long friendships.

DOES the Green Tree agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon which ceded the Bakassi Peninsula to the to the latter have the force of law if it has not been ratified by the National Assembly as stipulated by the Nigerian Constitution?

THROUGHOUT his campaign for the July 14 (this Saturday) Edo State governorship election, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has concentrated his focus on issues that have very little bearing on his performance as governor of Edo State in the last four years.

THE simmering dispute between Cross River and Akwa Ibom states over oil wells has become even more Interesting with a fraudulent map being circulated by the National Boundary Commission (NBC). This map in effect cedes to Cameroon and other nations, part of the estuarine territory of Cross River State.

HE said to me that for him and a whole lot of successful private sector professionals, partisan politics and indeed politics generally had never been their thing. However, in recent time, he had begun to question such indifference and whether they still have any right to complain when things go so terribly wrong.

PHILOSOPHY is good because it awakens in man the need for critical thinking. However, if what Emenuaga was trying to say is that Obi as a philosopher should have performed better, he is wrong. I challenge him to tell us one governor who is doing better than him with the available resources? There is no sector in which Obi has not done better than his predecessors.

AS a young undergraduate in the 1980s, I got mocked by my friends from the eastern part of the country each time they returned after the holidays to then University of Ife in Ile-Ife which was renamed after the great politician who was never allowed to transform Nigeria even though they (the powers that be) knew he had all it took to do so.

SLEEPING sickness is the scourge of sub-Saharan Africa where, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO and Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, an estimated 50 million people and 48 million cattle are at risk of contracting the disease.