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.

AS elections draw near, it is clear that the contest for the office of governor of Yobe State will be fought in the main by the ruling All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Both parties have already conducted their primaries and have returned Alhaji Ibrahim Gaidam and Senator Usman Albishir, respectively as their candidates.

WITH President Jonathan’s swift annihilation of opponents in the recent PDP presidential primary contest, it is important to review the road we have travelled, in order to have a fairly clear idea of our destination. We must start from the Igbo country, if only because charity should always begin at home.

A scion of Prince Yonwuren of Ugbuwangue, the last Olu of Warri, before the interregnum of 1894-1921 in the long line of the reigning Kings of Warri Kingdom.

TODAY in Nigeria everybody is aware of the hydra-headed monster called corruption, which is poised to swallow everything that is inherently good in us. We are also cognizant of the congenital link between corruption and the materialistic culture which pervades our current society. Right from the new born baby to the gray-haired granny, we are faced with a generation that places more value on the money in your pocket more than the wisdom in your eyes; a phenomenon which has the definite power to make us self-destruct.

THERE were in the days of old such realities as African empires and kingdoms. In fact, our history teachers of the Seventies had a good time in their classes, regaling us with the derring-do and the bravura of the Ghana, Mali and Songhai empires of yore and their almost always deified monarchs. We tasked our minds imagining the Asantehennes, the Omanhennes, Mansa Kankan Musa, Sundiata and Askia Toure.

What appears to be useful and working elsewhere in the world has become a thorn in the flesh of Nigerian job seekers. The pains and sufferings accompanying ones resolve to acquire a university, polytechnic or any other related degree, after four to six years of sleepless nights with endured patience seems to be the beginning of ones woes and troubles.