A LOT of comments have been made about the bickering between the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu.

IN contemporary state system, ultimate power lay with the military not so much for its famed discipline and cohesive structure, but because it monopolizes access to organised, purposeful and legitimate violence.

DR. CHRIS Ngige is one politician who needs no introduction in a congregation of his peers. He was wangled into power by elements thought to be political profiteers and got bundled out same way by the courts. The clumsy manner of his forced removal from office earlier on by those who enthroned him attracted wide condemnation. That false step greatly extenuated the invidious manner of his emergence as the Governor of Anambra State.

HAVING worked closely in the last three and half years plus, and even closer in the last ten months or so when President Goodluck Jonathan became the substantive President, not many people thought Dr. Bukola Saraki, the governor of Kwara State, will seek to contest the presidency against President Jonathan. But he did.

THE advantage of the decentralisation of the SSS, CIB and the PMF barracks is that it will not only enable faster and better intelligence gathering on potential crises, but will reduce the time security forces take to respond to such crises, and thereby nib them in the bud before they escalate.

EMMANUEL Uduaghan recently thought he should respond to my piece: “Take a trip to the three Warri LGAs” published in the Vanguard of February 7, 2011. He went consulting his consultant, public communication and strategy. Both men came out and deposited a full-page advertorial in the Vanguard of February 8, 2011.

GOVERNANCE all over the universe no doubt is an act of being able to bring to the door steps of the governed those things that could be beneficiary to them.

THIS becomes critical though, considering the vantage position of Lagos as the former federal capital of Nigeria and the commercial hub of Nigeria, which has continued to make it attractive to immigrants from both within and outside Nigeria in search of a better life. Lagos houses both the busiest sea ports and airports in Nigeria and serves as the headquarters to most corporations and national conglomerates.

THE attention of the Management of Nigeria Immigration Service has been drawn to a flagrant and unfathomable publication in This Day Newspaper of Thursday, February 10, 2011 entitled: “The Rebranding War in Immigration”.

ALL over the world there is a growing appetite for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as a vehicle for the financing of public infrastructure.

THE candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan represents a new dawn in the social, economic and political history of Nigeria since independence. In a country fraught with political thuggery and intolerance since independence, the entrance of the Dr. Jonathan into Nigeria’s troubled political mainstream has greatly minimised political, religious and economic tension considering his patient and intelligent maneuvers.

IT is seldom said that those who live in a glass house should not throw stones, because they might end up becoming victims.

ON February 13, 2011, it will be precisely 35 years our former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed, was assassinated on a black Friday (February 13, 1976) in a military coup.

FOR anyone who has followed his career, it would not come as a surprise that Chris Ogiemwenyi a petroleum engineer and the Minister of State in the Federal Ministry of Works has brought glamour and competence into the act of governance in just few months on the job.

RIGHT from his inauguration as the Chairman of Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Bashorun Askia Ogieh (JP) has always had a clear vision of the enormity of the task before him.