SINCE the day Reverend Father Lutz from France stepped his feet on the soil of the ancient city of Onitsha in 1885, the history of the people of Eastern Nigeria has not been the same.

WHEN their candidate was roundly defeated by Barack Obama on the November 4, 2008 United States Presidential election, at the concession speech of Senator McCain, you could observe a lot of his supporters were bitter, not because their candidate lost the election, but because he lost to a blackman! Most of them were crying ‘how could this happen? How can this black man rule ‘our’ America’? To them America belongs to the white man, period.

THE reported events of Thursday November 16, 2010, highlighted what Nigerians knew all along. For starters, a group known as Coalition of Atiku Northern Supporters (CANSU) who are staunch supporters of the former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was reported to have issued a statement.

I HAVE watched with dismay the unguarded utterances of some political undertakers who think they are still relevant politically in Abia State against Governor Theodore Orji, especially as next year’s general elections approach.

I JOIN millions of Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora to mourn the death of our foremost nationalist, an elder statesman, pro-democracy activist, journalist and one of Nigeria’s frontline politicians, Chief (Dr) Anthony Eromosele Enahoro the Adolo of Uromi who died peacefully on 15:12:2010 at the age of 87, in Benin City, the Edo State Capital.

THERE is something about the Nigeria system that defies all logic and reasoning. The country has been enmeshed in the zoning brouhaha since the demise of our dear president, late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. During his long absence, due to ill-health, there were subterranean and unconstitutional moves to block the then Vice-President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from assuming office because the President did not properly hand over to him, before travelling for medical treatment in Saudi-Arabia.

AFTER the first round of the October 31, 2010 election, Laurent Gbagbo secured 1,756,504 popular votes or 38.4 per cent of total votes while Alassane Ouattara got 1,481,091 of popular votes or 32.07per cent.

THERE are several festivals the Bayelsa State Government can bankroll yearly, as part of an articulated programme to show-case the state’s rich tourism potentials to the world.

THE build-up to the 2010 Ivorian Presidential election was as dramatic as the election itself. The election which produced two presidents, two prime ministers, two governments, two armies and two capitals will go down in Ivorian political history, paradoxically as one of the freest and fairest, ever held in the world’s greatest cocoa producing country.

BARELY two weeks of the launch of Great Ogboru’s campaign for change in Delta State, the message of change has continued to gather momentum in and around the State. The crowd that greeted Great Ogboru, popularly known as the peoples general on arrival at the airport to kick starts his campaign for change at Warri was unprecedented.

AS a stakeholder in Igbo affairs, I was for once proud that the apex Igbo Socio-Cultural Association Ohaneze Ndigbo took a position on the issue of zoning Nigeria’s presidency in 2011. Indeed, the decision must have come from the finest political thinkers of our generation.

SEVERAL recent reports, especially by some prominent foreign consultancy firms, have called attention to the good economic news about Africa. In particular, those reports underline that the region has significant business opportunities.

THE sparks are still flying on the controversial strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities in state universities of the South-East since July 2010. For obvious reasons, the situation should not be allowed to linger.

THE Senate’s rejection of a clause in the amended Electoral Act 2010, which sought to make the federal lawmakers automatic members of the National Executive Committees (NEC) of their political parties, doesn’t seem to impress many discerning democratically-minded Nigerians.

DESPITE the widespread rejection of the attempt to amend the Electoral Act 2010 by the National Assembly, the federal lawmakers seem pig-headed in their determination to pooh-pooh public opinion, which was stoutly expressed during the public hearing on the issue.