LATELY, fresh winds of positive change seem to be blowing through the rank and file of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS. A new orientation seems to be taking place in the entire operations of the Service.

THE violence in the North is not surprising. That half of our society is perpetually on tinderbox; the result of widespread poverty coupled with mass illiteracy and, in too many cases, religious fanaticism.

A PEOPLE’S language is part of their identity. If a people lose their language, they have practically lost themselves.
The English language is supposed to be our second language but now, it has become our first language.

THE Customs Command, as we all knowis the hub of international and local businesses in Nigeria. In fact, as the first port of call for most Nigerian and foreign importers and exporters, the happenings in this Command will either affect Nigeria positively or negatively.

IT is, I believe, generally understood that the achievement of true development in Nigeria must entail the building of our own endogenous domestic capabilities and capacities to produce and manufacture modern technologies and globally competitive industrial goods.

THE 2011 general elections debates may have been over with the on-going elections across the federation and the citizens’ anticipation of more election results. But the drama and controversies caused over the debate are worth examining, especially for future elections and debates.

NIGERIAN motorists daily face the dilemma of which instruction to abide by regarding the use of tinted motor glasses.

IF there is anybody out there that still nurses any doubt about the ability of the Nigerian masses to determine for themselves, then the just concluded presidential election is enough for the doubting Thomas to start believing in the ability of what the Nigerian citizens are capable of doing.

THERE is something that is seriously wrong in Africa where those who lose elections refuse to accept defeat. There is something wrong in situations where those who do not win refuse to give up even when they have reached the end of the road.

OF all the elections so far held in Nigeria this year, the reported fraudulent and criminal activities that characterised polling in Ika North of Delta State are shameful and disgusting. Dr. Godwin Awvioro, a lecturer in Anatomy at Delta State University, was the returning officer there. He refused to announce fabricated election results, even at gunpoint. He later surfaced at the Police Headquarters in Asaba, the Delta State capital to cancel the results of the fraudulent elections.

I MUST necessarily start by congratulating Goodluck Jonathan for listening to me on the matter of Ibori’s London trial. In “Any Deal between Jonathan, Ibori-Uduaghan” recently published by various media organs home and abroad I opened that topic this way: “We all love Goodluck Jonathan, and yours sincerely has arguably done more pro-GEJ articles (published home and abroad) than anybody since Atiku emptied his political campaigns of sanity.

YESTERDAY, for supporting Chuma Nzeribe, our self-acclaimed political puritan, Dr. Okey Ndibe said that Governor Obi was treacherous.

IT was a story of condemnation, chastising, anger, despair, discouragement and depression when Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission first announced the postponement of the National Assembly elections.

DR. CHRIS Nwabueze Ngige can’t seem to walk away from political controversy and electoral misadventure. Since he came into political limelight in 2003 as the Anambra State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, Ngige has lost two elections to Peter Obi/APGA; fought protracted battles with his political godfathers and is presently caught in the center of another electoral storm.

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