Let us even assume that Oshiomhole romanced PDP before berthing at the ACN. Is that in itself against any known law in the land? If Ihimekpen is sincere with himself, he should be bold enough to tell the people of the state that the real truth Oshiomhole abandoned the PDP is because of the fraudulent conditions they wanted to impose on him.

Are journalists in Ogun State not worthy of appointments in the government of their state? Why is it that successive occupants of Igbein Hill Government House since 1999 (that was when I began active journalism in the State) have not been looking their ways for engagement, especially as media and information managers?

Policy reserval is a disease common to our governments, military or civilian, since independence in 1960. It has been the bane of development in a way that rubbishes all the positives of perspective planning.

The telephone at my New Rochelle, New York residence rang one afternoon in late September 1990. The familiar voice at the other end simply said, “Joe, I dey your town, o!” “Gus”, I answered, a bit surprised as I had not had prior intimation of his visit. “Welcome,” I said. “How now?” “We dey!” He replied. “Shey you go come house?” I quickly followed. “How I go come New York and no come your house?,” He responded. “How long you dey town for?” “Only a few days,” he answered. “Okay. We go arrange. Where you dey stay?” “For Helmsley Palace”. “Welcome,” I repeated, “I go come see you.”

Characteristically, an average liar also suffers a combination of two things- great deal of verbal hemorrhage and loss of memory. For the first lapse, he talks so much that he often colours his points so much that he is never comfortable until every word he utters is well embellished beyond what it ordinarily should be.

The fever that is raging in Nigeria todayis “Wikileaks”. Yet as entertaining as these secret communications are the truth is that if you believe everything that you read in Julian Assange’s “leaks” then you will believe anything. I say this based on my own personal experiences.

IT is baffling, indeed worrisome how people often and unconstructively criticize government policies without providing alternatives or superior arguments, rather relying on emotions and sentiments to project their views.

THE May/June 2011 West African Senior Secondary School certificate Examination result released by WAEC shows the grave state of our secondary education. According to Dr. Iyi Uwaedia, head of WAEC National Office, only 30.9% of the 1,540,250 candidates made five credits and above, including English and Mathematics.

AFTER about four months on active duty in the Far- Eastern country of Afghanistan and returning home to the warm embrace of family and friends, the just ended holy month of Ramadan was an opportunity to reflect again on our past and the future of our country.

The world over, labour and industrial sector is central and sine-qua-non of the government’s agenda. Little wonder countries like the United States of America, France, Germany and the rest of the advanced or developed countries do not take for granted the industrial sector of the economy because of the identified and known important roles the labour sector plays in the attainment of the government’s agenda and development of any nation.

ANAMBRA, a state blessed with enormous and unbelievable human potential recently celebrated its 20 years of existence. After tottering, falling and groping for direction, the state has finally steadied its legs and is up and walking at an admirable pace.

Okharedia Ihimekpen, the Edo PDP spokesman is at it again. This time, a failed attempt to re-write history of a political force in Edo State that he knows next to nothing about as encapsulated in his warped treatise published on Page 41 of Monday August 22, 2011 issue of the Nigerian Tribune. Those of us, the founders of the Grace Group that he thoughtlessly referred to are not surprised as the month draws to an end, a time for him to get to Uromi to pick some crumbs.

In 1999, when ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo mounted the mantle of Nigeria’s leadership, he shunted the Urhobo, the fifth largest ethnic group of Nigeria, from his constituted Federal Executive Council, FEC. This was after the Urhobo nation had massively given him their mandate through the electoral process.

Rather then a conjecture, it is now a stern reality that tough times await fishermen in Koko and environs. The cause of the latest and pulsating alarm is not unconnected with the activities of illegal crude oil bunkers that operate fearlessly, and right under the ‘watchful’ eyes of security operatives in the Warri North LGA, Delta State. The condition of the Koko river has deteriorated to the extent that no meaningful fishing can take place there, needless to mention putting the water from it into any domestic use.

Amy Jade Winehouse was a talent and a tragic figure. Her entry into the music bloc was a loud drop with a biggish promise. Pundits predicted that Winehouse would be a winner.