In his Book titled “A Paradise for Maggots: The story of a Nigerian Anti-graft Czar”, Wale Adebanwi, a Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Director, African Studies Centre in Oxford University, painted a lucid but agonizing picture of how corruption has robbed Nigeria of its best in virtually all facets of human endeavor.

Armed local conflicts are difficult to manage in any part of the world. Countries which have had this unfortunate experience and eventually salvaged, reserve a special chapter in their history to recount the disgusting tales.

FOR Imo people, the 2019 governorship election is a very big and serious issue. Clearly, the state has been divided into two major camps: those who want the Governor Rochas Okorocha political dynasty to continue, and those clamouring for tested people who have managed human resources and have achieve successes that could be verified to run the affairs of the state.

THE National Assembly has a gift for manufacturing absurdités ;its team-lead, the Senate, takes the cake in throwing up legislative horrors every  now and again.  And so the nation’s consciousness of democratic governance, suffered another shocking  assault recently, when thugs invaded the Senate and made away with the mace. The Senate was in session, and had indeed in the chambers, Ghanaian legislators, who were observing our own process, presumably, for information and experience. In the event, they got full lessons on exactly ‘’how not to do it’’.

Even after repeated calls by various persons on the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to respect his supposed pastoral calling and stop his nasty habit of lying, Pastor Osinbajo refuses to heed these calls and continues to spew falsehood forgetting or perhaps not caring that the devil is the father of all liars.