THREE hours after the Federal High Court Asaba presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba dismissed the application for tenure completion by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, who was sworn in on January 10, 2011, following the re-run of the governorship election, he and his followers were in Obiaruku for the kick-off of the zonal campaign of the PDP for the April general elections.

DESCRIBE it as uncontrollable desperation, call it ungodly dispositions or religious jingoism, you are right as some Christian clerics in Abia State have now made themselves available to be used as political marionettes by some politicians in the state who have lost out in the power equation to achieve their selfish desires against the majority of the people ahead of the April polls.

A STUDY of the behavioural pattern of the Nigerian politician and political parties reveals that when a party or candidate is declared winner of any election, the candidate so declared and his political party would say that the election was free and fair while the loser candidate and political party that sponsored him would cry blue murder, alleging that the election was fraudulently conducted, marred with irregularities and that electoral officers were bribed to alter results in favour of the winner.

SINCE August 26, 2010 when the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR unveiled his administration’s road map in the Power sector, various business groups and investors have indicated interest in participating in the acquisition of the Power Generating Plants.

LEADERS who will not recruit green horns based on party allegiance or family ties. Leaders who will inspire their professional cabinet and co-workers into higher levels of teamwork motivation to achieve realistic targets.

AS we gradually approach the 2011 general elections, any right thinking Nigerian who is patriotic enough would now be concerned with how the country should achieve hitch-free polls.

THE Arab world is enmeshed in crises of identity and direction. First it was the Tunisians who gave Ben Ali one of the oldest dictators this side of the Atlantic, the marching order.

TODAY, Mr. Peter Obi of Anambra State would have spent the first one year in his second term in office. And to properly assess the progress of his administration or lack of it, we will occasionally revert to his first four years in office, since development is a veritable continuum; where an aspect complements the whole..

MY heart as a Christian goes to our Lord Jesus Christ’s parable of the Prodigal Son as recorded in the gospel according to Luke 5:11-32.

BODE George finished his prison sentence on Saturday February 26, 2011 and moved straight from Kirikiri prison to Cathedral Church of Christ for a thanksgiving service to God Almighty who preserved him while he served the punishment meted out to him by the State for his infraction against the laws of the land.

ALHAJI Bola Ahmed Tinubu has, in the past 12 months or so, been playing poseur. He has been carrying on like some messiah, a man imbued with the definitive political alternative for a better Nigeria. His fortunes rose in the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), following Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s counter defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

FOR some obvious reasons, I decided not to write for sometime now. The main reason is the fact that there have been no positive changes in the country. In one of my previous write-ups, I wondered why Nigeria , regarded as the sixth largest oil producing country in the world, cannot make kerosene available to its citizens, especially the common man.

Indications that former Governor Oserhiemen Osunbor is favoured for the gubernatorial ticket in 2011, emerged during the week, when the PDP in Edo State hosted the Presidential Campaign rally.

AS the April 2011 elections draw near, it is apt and expedient for Nigerians to examine the various persons who are seeking to get our mandate for the next four years as President of the Federal Republic.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign tour of the South-South zone no doubt provided food for thought for Nigerians who might not have come from that geopolitical zone of the country. Apart from the flavour of celestial ordinance around Goodluck Jonathan’s ascension to his present position, the claim of the minorities of the South to the leadership position in Nigeria has incontrovertible justification on the platform of morality