It is regrettable today that politics in Nigeria is getting more brutal, more bizarre and damned bloody. Political assassinations are common place in the agenda of today’s politicians. Our politicians now pursue more eloquently those traits and interests that divide us rather than inventing means of cementing the bonds that unite us.

Wonders, they say, shall never end. The people of Sokoto State are currently witnessing the latest bout of wonders aimed at hoodwinking the very intelligent people of the state into being backing a wrong horse.

BACK in 1988 when General Ibrahim Babangida wanted to embark on the first round of removal of subsidy on petroleum products, it unleashed a blistering campaign that Nigeria was the only country in the world where a bottle of Coca cola, then sold at 5 kobo, was cheaper than a litre of fuel that was sold at 2 kobo per pump price.

AHEAD of next year’s governorship election in Edo State, high level intrigues, plots, blackmail, name-calling and political witch-hunting have started in earnest, especially in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the State. It is obvious that in the days ahead, more of it will resurrect among those who are posing and pretending to be members of the party, but in the actual sense they are moles who were on a suicide mission to disintegrate the party and pave way for the ruling party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to win again in the forthcoming election.

HISTORY is both the account of events and the role of prominent actors in these dispensations. Every nation or state will always have its defining moments. At such critical junctures, we may encounter a protagonist whose fortunes interweave with those of the larger society.

IN a remarkable commitment to the sustenance of its zoning and rotational arrangement, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a bid to deepen the roots of democracy in the country and also maintain its vast electoral fortune has zoned the position of its national chairman to the north east geo-political zone of the federation.

The confession of Mr. President If there is anything President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, fondly called “GEJ” is not, then braggart, undoubtedly, is the word.

TALKS of the PDP coming to power againin Edo State usually dwell more on the current state of politics in the state than reliably predicting what will happen in the future.

TO allay the ingrained fears and in deference of the average Edolite and consequently restore their hope for an era of good governance and prompt and equitable delivery of democracy dividends, Senator Osunbor pointedly said in his inaugural speech on May 29, 2007: “I wish to assure you that during my tenure in office and by the special grace of Almighty God, Edo State will be restored to a position of glory and greater heights of excellence.

THE news spread in our cell and beyond. We wept and mourned, and pointed accusing fingers at the blood-thirsty dictator Abacha for killing Ake. November is not good for me. Fare thee well, November.

WHENEVER a government looks invincible, and the opposition is in a mess, journalists, analysts and political scientists start to speculate on what would seem to be movement towards a one-party state.

AS the countdown to the 2012 gubernatorial election in Edo State draws near the permutations and maneuvering in the Peoples Democratic Party has intensified. This is particularly on the issue of the choice of the governorship candidate of the party.

ON Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, a public lecture was held to mark the 2011 Igbo Day celebrations, officially hosted by the Ebonyi State Government.

I FORGOT completely that the returning and repulsive month called November, is around the corner again. The agony of a nation descending into a deeper crisis, and the death of Kingsley Baridilo Kpea, the Ogoni-born petroleum engineer and Comrade who died recently in an Indian hospital, are troubling me, to forget the nauseating month November.

I now come to the challenges of peace-building. Many people, I believe, consider Nigeria as a theatre of absurd conflicts and interminable crises. They may be justified in holding this view; with the Jos crisis festering for years, with post-election violence and suicide – bombings, it is difficult to think otherwise.