MANY have continued to wonder what happened to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State in 2007 that led to its loss of the governorship seat to the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, at the Appeal Court.

Other areas of advancement in healthcare delivery recorded within the period under review included: *Participation of 300 children in the study on the inclusion of zinc in the household management of childhood diarrhoea in Nigeria.

IT has become the established ritual that most successor governments in Africa tend to rubbish or totally obliterate the strides, contributions and achievements of their predecessors through jaundiced commentaries or outright selective amnesia – all in the name of politics.

POLITICAL developments and governance in Edo State since 1999 have clearly shown how unfortunate the state, popularly referred to as the “Heartbeat of the Nation”, has been without sincere and committed governors to direct its affairs and lead it to the proverbial Promised Land.

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.

CITIZEN Chinaza Okoli wrote what he entitled an “Open Letter to Governor Peter Obi” on the Tuesday, October 11, 2011 issue of the DAILY SUN.

ANAMBRA never ceases to amaze me. As a sociologist, I have always taken a keen interest in events around me and as an indigene of Anambra State, Ogidi to be precise, I always pay extra attention to developments in my State.

ON October 1, 2011, Nigerians celebrated the 51st anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. It was a day marked by the same usual festivities, civic rituals and elaborate speeches by the President, governors and other governing officials.

THE NNPC which was set up to prospect and explore oil like its counterparts in Iran, Libya, Venezuela, Brazil etc, suddenly became a net importer and distributor of imported fuel.

He has transformed the Anambra State-owned university by building many structures, including the Mass Communication block, the Law Faculty Library and hostels at the Igbariam campus while doing much more at the Uli campus.

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.