You see a heartbreakingly beautiful woman, elfin andlissome. She has won all the beauty pageants and is always on TV giggling, winking, and crossing and uncrossing her long legs to tantalize voyeurs. But she is deep cover.

I have always said if Oshiomhole’s mentor (Lucky Igbinedion) represents the worst regime the state has ever had, Oshiomhole could as well be described as the worst omen ever of a looming disaster that is waiting to happen in Edo State, except there is a divine intervention.

Biafra ended in January 1970. That is 41 years ago. But the temptation to draw public attention to a striking similarity it shares with today’s Nigeria is irresistible.

There can never be an endto sloganeering in the ambience of politicking and political contestations in Nigeria. “No man is God”, a slogan that dominated the political space in Edo State on the heels of the 2003 governorship election victory by Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion, was a creation of the Grace Group, a dissident political group within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo, funded by Igbinedion.

Overtime, majority of African public health laboratories delivered sub-optimal services and were not in a position to contribute to quality health system as most performed poorly, hindered by dilapidated infrastructures, poor development and implementation of quality management systems. Functioning laboratories are essential to identify a disease, ensure patients get the correct treatments and allow resistance to be tracked.

With the partisan, vociferous solidarity of Nigerian Bar Association, Civil Society Organisations, vocal lawyers, activists, journalists, students, public affairs commentators, politicians, etc., for Justice Isa Ayo Salami, the suspended President of the Court of Appeal; taking a contrary stance on the matter would appear somewhat ill-advisedly suicidal.

I DID ask in my last piecewhether the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Katsina-Alu, is above the law. I ask because, for me, while respect for the office of the CJN should remain sacrosanct, men or women who occupy this exalted office must be subjected to critical scrutiny. This is crucial in order to prevent their personality traits from bringing infamy to this highly revered office.

They are both retired military generals andseptuagenarians. They are both Grand Commanders of the Federal Republic. They both enjoyed the rare privilege of ruling the Giant of Africa for as many years as the greatest and best achieving American president ever had no privilege to surpass.

THE ongoing reconciliation exercise of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, came as huge relief to many of us, particularly those of us who believe that just one person has been saddled with governance in our state.

THE drive for a sustainable change and the expected gains recorded at each interval in the education sector in the recent past have remained transient and still mired in turmoil in spite of the good intentions of the previous administrations both for the sustenance and bringing the education sector to an acceptable level in the recent past.

The public slanging match between Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, two Army Generals that, between them, ruled Nigeria for 20 of its 50 years, summarises the heavy burden of curse under which the country continues to groan.

Before the landing of Glo 1 as Globacom’s submarine cable is called, in Lagos, the only undersea broadband infrastructure available was the SAT-3 which was jointly owned by several countries in Africa. Glo therefore single-handedly positioned Nigeria on the world technology platform.

Nothing is permanent in life. Kingdoms rise and fall and so are stars. This assertion paints a true picture of the political fortune of the Kalus’, headed by the former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu and his mother, Chief Eunice Uzor Kalu.

It (the 2008 budget) was based on the vision of achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015 as stipulated by the United Nations during the Millennium Development Summit in 2000.

Even before the last shot would be fired and Gaddafi would be captured alive or dead, imperialists and their lackeys such as the presidency in Nigeria, and follow-follow wey-no-open sense commentators and supposedly revolutionist analysts have begun to grant legitimacy to the counter-revolution Libyan rebels.