“In Election Petition matters, just in a twinkle of an eye, some Judges become millionaires. In fact, those of us who have passed through the yoke of being judges, what we hear outside shatters us, because they are not just millionaires, as we are told; they are billionaires.

MANY commentators have given their views on the perceived ‘mass resignations’ in the cabinet of Edo State government; while a few hit the bull’s eye, many were definitely off the mark.

OBVIOUSLY shocked by what I called the profusion of lies by the duo of Drs. Arinze Chinweuba and Emeka Nwabunna, who were on air to talk about the crisis they themselves created at the Anambra State University, they did separate rejoinders to my piece. However, the rejoinders were closely knit that you picture the duo as good friends mingling in osmosis of mutual influence.

IT is important to devote time every year toremember our brothers and sisters in uniform who helped us to ensure the world is war-free and perhaps more importantly those who fought to ensure Nigeria remains one, indivisible nation. We can never appreciate them enough because they paid with their lives to ensure we have one united country.

MOREOVER, the economy is so bad that youth could be enticed with money to follow the highest bidder. This could work in otherc limes but not in Nigeria. GEJ and Ribadu share almost same youth enthusiasm if the internet furor is anything to go by. But GEJ looks more of a mainstream politician.

A LOT have been said on the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan and the former Nigeria anti-corruption czar-cum-crime buster, Nuhu Ribadu. For this analysis, I paired these two candidates because both candidates currently receive the highest number of support online and in public arguments over who would lead the country.

THIS piece is provoked not so much by any form of political or social affiliations with the Alei of Aleibiri, but a desire to deflate a balloon of fallacy which now surrounds Ebebi’s contested impeachment.

Although, the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), came with a counsel, it was a counsel brought after the fact. For President Goodluck Jonathan, there was an urgent need to do something.

GREAT news came from Anambra State on Monday, January17, 2011. The six month-old strike by the Academic and non-Academic Staff Unions in state universities in the South-East was finally called off at Anambra State University, Uli, paving way for the immediate resumption of academic activities.

WITH the conclusion of primary elections in most of the political parties across the country, it is becoming clear to the people who are the candidates of the political parties and what they will be contesting for in the coming general elections.

THE scoreboard between OBJ/Atiku and Yar’dua/Jonathan’s regimes is what was loudly presented to the PDP presidential primaries delegates at the Eagles Square on January 13, 14, 2011. It is heart-warming that Nigerian politicians are learning gradually and in no distant time may no more be taken for a ride. The Yar’Adua/Goodluck government may be far from the best we had hoped for but in comparison with those very sickening eight years of OBJ/Atiku, it is better. And those delegates said so with their votes.

THE essence of democracy and party system is the control of the machinery of government through the process of election . In democratic dispensation, power belongs to the electorate whose votes should count as an instrument of enthronement into the various elective offices, from the presidency down to the councillorship.

LEADERS that realise that greatness is not property accumulated within the shortest time but the services rendered for the good of others. Since, the British colonialists lowered the Union Jack and freed a land they have ruled for less than a century, the country has never enjoyed credible leadership with good governance.

THE usual predatory political elite mock him, claiming that he is too rigid and fixated to certain moral categories and therefore unamenable to the free bargain of politics or the “scratch my back, I scratch yours” that has dragged our public affairs to the pit.

EVERY journey starts with the first small step. There is no doubt that this year’s general elections will definitely cha6nge the course of history of Nigeria for a new nation.