IT is understandable why Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is hysterical. He is confronted with the monstrous reality of defeat in the scheduled July 14 governorship election in the State. And because his administration is on a quicksand, he has become desperate, seeking platforms and structures that will give support to his precarious re-election project.

THE immediate past administration oiled so many Irrevocable Standing Payment Order, ISPOs, running into N50billion and still counting. Ironically, all the projects which the former governor claimed to have tied to the ISPOs are in a sorry state. Prominent among them is the Kokidiete Koki Specialist Hospital at Opolo and Melford Okilo Memorial Hospital, both in Yenagoa which were abandoned by Sylva.

THE fourth Chief Executive of Bayelsa State, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, a seasoned lawyer, administrator and lawmaker par excellence is in a class of his own. It is amazing that even after becoming governor, Dickson still lives the spartan life that I know him for. He still wears his old cloths, uses his old MTN SIM card, picks his calls and keeps tab on his friends.

IT is no longer news that governance in the world’s most popular Black nation and self-proclaimed Giant of Africa, Nigeria (subject to data and statistics) is one of mock charade.

Last year, I visited a mother’s group in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi to learn more about family planning in Africa. At the end of our conversation, a woman named Mary Ann told me something I’ll never forget. She said she plans her family because she wants to “bring every good thing” to one child before she has another.

THE story surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ as contained in Matthew 2:1-11 keeps fascinating me. A part of which speaks of three wise men from the East who came to pay their obeisance and worship the birth of the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

THE story surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ as contained in Matthew 2:1-11 keeps fascinating me. A part of which speaks of three wise men from the East who came to pay their obeisance and worship the birth of the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

WITH Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s formal entry into the race for the presidency of the World Bank, Nigeria has put its hat in the ring of international, high stakes diplomacy.

I WAS not, just like other Nigerians surprised with the article titled ‘T.A Orji’s Public Humiliation” written by Dan Onwukwe and published in his column in The Sun Newspaper of March 12, 2012.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is expected to announce a service provider which will be in charge of administration of the soon to be introduced mobile number portability (MNP) service.

SENATOR Emmanuel Andy Uba has, since 1999 when he returned to Nigeria and joined the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, seen it all in the very dirty and strange politics of Anambra State in particular and Nigeria generally.

TWO compatriots have commented publicly on the title of my book, Time to Reclaim Nigeria. At the public presentation of the book in Abuja on December 15, 2011, the special guest, Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, in his presentation, “In Search of True Federalism”, noted: “This mission to reclaim Nigeria, however, is a little bit problematic. To attempt to reclaim something suggests that it was in your possession ab initio.

THERE is a creepy political melodrama going on in Edo State. The drama is, as it were, defining the shape, content and texture of the scheduled July 14 governorship election which incumbent Governor Adams Oshiomhole is already prosecuting by throwing in everything at his disposal: desperation, propaganda, intimidation, lawlessness, impunity and public funds.

THE attention of the FCT Administration has been drawn to the editorial of This Day Newspaper of Wednesday, March 21, 2012, entitled: “Maitama Extension, Not Jonathan Please.” From the beginning to the end, the editorial was full of venom, hatred and ill-will.

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