Can any honest person oppose the capture of biometric data in our civil service? Can any patriotic Nigerian constitute a stumbling block to the unbundling of the bastions of inefficiently run pivotal institutions that have constituted an obstacle to rapid economic development in spite of Nigeria’s abundant natural resources?

The relegation of agriculture to the background at the onset of the oil boom during the 1970s occurred side by side with what has been described in some quarters as the epoch of implantation of corruption in the country.

Edo State Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion, in a syndicated interview with some political reporters, purportedly in Lagos, seized the occasion of the anniversary of his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s third year in office, to hurl uncharitable tirade at Chief Tony Anenih, the Iyasele of Esanland and national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In 1976, the 49 -man Constitution Drafting Committee, headed by the late Chief Rotimi Williams, received 346 memoranda from various groups, individuals and government agencies, on how best to produce a new constitution for Nigeria.

Edo State Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion, in a syndicated interview with some political reporters, purportedly in Lagos, seized the occasion of the anniversary of his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s third year in office, to hurl uncharitable tirade at Chief Tony Anenih, the Iyasele of Esanland and national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Away from the pomp usually associated with birthdays, Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State celebrated his last birthday doing things that had no bearing with the milestone.

As the race for the Edo Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate draws close only one man seems to have the track records to unseat the lion occupying Denis Osadebey Government House.

PDP has purportedly disqualified Governor Timipre Sylva from participating in a purported Governorship Primaries to nominate its Governorship Candidate for the February, 2012 Bayelsa State Governorship Election.

For politicians in Akwa Ibom State, the 2015 gubernatorial election may be over three years away but the concern of who will take over from Governor Godswill Akpabio has attracted some interest in recent political discourses.

THE Labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain”. The ongoing exchanges (not yet a debate) about removal of subsidy in petrol can be likened to a dialogue of the deaf and the dumb. The two opposing sides are so intransigently pitched and do not understand themselves.

I HAVE been into activism since 1985 having served the late Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, the younger brother of the great revolutionary musician, the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti as a printer/activist from 1985 till he died in 2006; we, together with other patriotic Nigerians, fought the military that ruled our country for 29 years without our consent, to vacate power for democratic governance to emerge.

SO Sanusi, and his co-travelers would do better and rather alert the never do well and indolent governors on the urgent need for them to draw near their people to reduce their pain and anguish for the well being of the country.

I was stirred to comment on the above issue by the recent statement credited to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi , in one of the national newspapers, where he reeled out reasons why Nigeria may remain underdeveloped.

EVERY 16th of November is a golden opportunity to reflect on essentials of leadership as Africa remembers one of her heroes, Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, a foremost pan- Africanist. The Zik of Africa as popularly known was born in Zungeru, in today’s Niger State in 1904. Young Zik travelled to the United States in 1925 in quest for education.

I READ an article entitled “At 20: Anambra Still Crawls” by one Mr. Emmanuel Obe. The said article x-rayed Anambra State since creation, and noted that many things are still wrong with the State.