The Panama Canal, a 77-kilometre Ship Canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, is one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. From what I read recently, the builders of the canal faced enormous obstacles of geography, climate and disease.

Recently, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned some former governors, including Otunba Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, for allegedly misappropriating public funds while in office.

AFTER the deafening chorus of opposition that greeted the recent proposal by the Federal Government to deregulate the down stream sector of the petroleum industry, the truth is gradually emerging about the staggering and mind-boggling cost of sustaining fuel subsidy regime in Nigeria.

THE Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, otherwise called the Cabotage Law, was designed to empower Nigerians to not only own vessels but develop capacity in various spheres of shipping, which for years have been dominated by foreign interests.

Everybody wants to comment about the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria, especially the Boko Haram insurgency, but most people are uninformed about the origin, nature, manifestations or even the metamorphosis of a hitherto peaceful ideological sect into a violent insurgency.

ONE is constrained to comment on the weighty admission by the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that the late President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, supported his aspiration financially and otherwise pre and post – April 14, 2007.

ENOCH Powell argued in his Common Market: Renegotiate or Come Out (1973) that Britain must renegotiate the then European Common Market or pull out. Recently, Britain dared Ghana and Uganda for standing up as humans and defending civilisation against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the latter coinage only known to this very decadent age since Adam.

IT is heart warming that on the matter of deregulation of key sectors of the economy, there are references. A simple case is the telecommunication industry. Today, the country is better for it as every Nigerian now has access to telephony.

Since his inauguration on May 29 this year, President Goodluck Jonathan has kept his election promise of “give me your vote, I will not disappoint you.” Curiously, his keeping the promise does not manifest in the expected delivery of policies with integrity, rather it manifests in not giving Nigerians what could be “globally” adjudged as sound policies and actions.

AT the launch of Segun Adeniyi’s Power, Politics and Death, Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole displayed his penchant for boastful, irrational and incoherent outburst in its most insipid form. It was thus natural to ask: “what is wrong with Oshiomhole?”

WITH these judicial precedents, it is surprising to many Nigerians where the justices of some Appeal Courts and Tribunal derived the power to order for retrial of election cases afresh after 180 days and assuming jurisdictions to hear such cases after the stipulated and specified days for election cases in the 1999 constitution as amended.

“For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burnet ‘(Isaiah 62; 1)’

THERE is no gainsaying that the security situation in Abia State is one of the best in the country today going by reports available across the country.

In his Sunday Trust and Sunday Vanguard “Point Blank” column of December 11, 2011, the former Director General of the NTA, Mr. Tonnie Iredia took a moral high ground and subtly called for the resignation of the current Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayya Ahmed Rufai over the latest strike by the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

There is a fundamental problem at the heart of Nigeria’s politics which, if it is not re-built, will prevent us from ever achieving the greatness we deserve as a nation, in fact, its increasingly rapid deterioration will potentially lead to a steep decline in our fortunes.