This is the second instalment of this piece which was first published yesterday. In that edition, the author said he was impressed by some of the landmark achievements of some of the former Boards of the NDDC.

“A group of between 5,000 and 10,000 people converged on the local police station in the township of Sharpeville, offering themselves up for arrest for not carrying their passbooks. The Sharpeville police were not completely unprepared for the demonstration, as they had already been forced to drive smaller groups of more militant activists away the previous night.

SOME thirty years or so ago, Fela had a hit song titled, ‘Beast Of No Nation’ in which he sang, “I never hear that before o, make government talk o, my people are useless, my people are senseless, my people are indisciplined. Which kind talk be that o…?”

YOUR Excellency, your path to the presidency has been long with many twists and turns.

None of us can fully comprehend what you have gone through the past twelve years to reach the current exalted position of the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Knowing what you believe and what you represent, we supporting you from the sidelines can only feel that your presidency signals an unlikely rebirth of our country. Much has transpired to create the space for this political moment in our country’s history.

WITH the urgent task of resettling the more than two million refugees, mostly women and children on his mind, and at hand, the more urgent one of rebuilding damaged infrastructure such as roads, bridges,clinics, schools as a requirement for their return to their communities, President Buhari leaves for the middle-east on a wee tour of three friendly countries.

Penultimate Monday, while receiving a delegation of the International board of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara articulated what many had long suspected to be the position of both chambers of the eighth National Assembly on the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).

“The majority of consumers do so due to economic hardship especially the youths who want to always feel high as they lack work to do.

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce is unarguably one of the most respected serving Senators in Nigeria today. As a successful Entrepreneur with welfarist ideology and love for Country, he came with one mission; To take Nigeria out of the woods into a more creative and productive Country. And he seems to be in hurry to achieve this, the Senator currently has close to ten bills aside motions in the National Assembly in less than seven months. These are not just ordinary Bills and motions but very historic ones indeed.

The 2016 budget of Ondo State which is the seventh in the series of the state’s Budget of a ‘Caring Heart’ under the leadership of Governor Olusegun Mimiko, has, as usual, attracted comments and analysis by experts and political actors. The budget which has earned for itself the toga of an exemplary budget for other states, has however, come under attack by no less a party than the Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The great people of Benue State have a special place in my heart and I greatly admire their academic industry. I know that one day, the potential God has given to them to feed the entire West Africa through value-added mechanized farming that will turn their farmers into mega billionaires will be realized. Benue State is more than just the food basket of Nigeria; it is also the food security of our dear nation. I salute the State’s agricultural prowess.