For the first time, leaders of Delta’s opposition now appear largely united in one political party. The All Progressives Congress (APC) now boasts of the revolutionary Chief Great Ogboru, the strategic-thinking Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the positively aggressive Dr. Cairo Ojugbo, the top-level operator Dr. (Mrs) Mariam Ali, the youthful, brilliant Rt. Hon Victor Ochei, and a host of other major political actors in Delta.

By March 31, the nine-month window provided by the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme, VAIDS, for tax defaulters to regularize their tax affairs will close. From the look of things, the closure will be accompanied by a big bang. I await the VAIDS deadline day like a cup final.

The report on Energy page of Vanguard newspaper of Tuesday, March 13, 2018, page 23, titled “Fuel distribution to worsen as leadership tussle emerges in NUPENG” calls for worry, and underpin the urgent need for drastic actions by the government and especially by Nigerians, who most often bear the brunt, to check the excesses of these unions in the oil sector.

In recent times, there has been a lot of conversation about which of the two arms of government is doing more in the fight against corruption — the executive under President Muhammadu Buhari, or the legislature under Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki. 

Since emerging as deputy senate president in 2015, despite being a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ike Ekweremadu has been a subject of both subtle and brazen attacks by entrenched interests in the All Progressives Congress (APC).