ONE of the most difficult but commendable decisions the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon. Dogara Yakubu has taken of late is the announcement of Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, from South West as the Leader of the 8th House of Representatives, along with other leaders.

AS lobby for who becomes the substantive Director General/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, hots up, maritime stakeholders are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to look inwards in picking a candidate rather than going for an outsider, who would spend months and years learning the rope.

Many people will be shocked with the data from the Africa Health, Human & Social Development (Afri-Dev) which provides factual data on Human Development Indices in Nigeria when they see it. But not me, because I saw it coming long before it became a reality

THE president, Muhammadu Buhari, pledged to present his cabinet in September, all of four months after his inauguration as president. The president has so far led the nation without an executive council, and with little more than a small presidential staff.

FROM the old, cranky bridge overlooking the Aba waterside, the crowd of bystanders stood to watch the new cinema. There used to be the old REX and EMI Cinema in this town where the senior boys of old stole out of bed and scale over the barbed wire fences of their dormitories at night to watch the escapades of the Chinese macho man, Bruce Lee, the American version of Rambo. That was the Aba of old, the paradise lost.

MY dear Governor, Am often amazed why most aides to Nigerian leaders are allowed in the campaign trails. The definition of aides in this type of political arrangement, is somebody has won his way into an office and the resultant search for capable hands to assist him to deliver. But no Nigerian leader has ever treaded this path.

THE ancient Greeks were firm believers in signs and omens, and a favourite saying of the philosophers of that era is: “When the student is ready, the Teacher will appear”.

THE news trending in the social media about huge sums of foreign and local currencies being hidden in several mansions across the country by a former Nigerian leader gives most right-thinking Nigerians goose pimples. Can it indeed be true as we have read in various online portals such as face book, Nairaland and others that the much sought after hard currencies and Naira amounting to over one billion dollars are being hidden in various houses belonging to the wife, relations and concubines of one of Nigeria’s former leaders?

THE curse that has afflicted the leadership of the Nigerian nation also extended to the states; greed, profligacy, corruption, mismanaged resources,etc. As it is with Nigeria, so it is with Delta state. A multi ethnic group of people with abundant resources in solid, mineral and the very important human capital resources.

NOBEL laureate Professor Wole Soyinka, weekend, showered encomiums on Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for being “a worthy ambassador” of the nation’s progressives community. Professor Soyinka’s plaudit was delivered at an exclusive dinner he hosted to toast the Edo governor and his new wife, Iara, at his Abeokuta home, assisted by his wife, Mrs.Folake Soyinka, on a night filled with jokes and reminiscences over sumptuous food and choice wine.