FOR as it was, Umaru Yar’Adua de-cided to go military like his mentor, Obasanjo. And so we didn’t only desire others to pray for us (ora pro nobis), we also wrote that people miss not the obvious: The wealth or monies of the region are in millions of private bank accounts with each running into millions of US dollars, all scattered throughout the whole world.

THE Lagos State University (LASU) has been embroiled in crisis for over three months now. The students are at home as a result of their lecturers strike to force government to implement a 53% salary increase agreed upon during ASUU’s prolonged strike last year.

IN the early 80s, Sunny Okosun, the Ozziddi King, asked this all important question, “WHICH WAY NIGERIA?” in one of his popular tracks. Since then, no answer has been provided. Rather what we have witnessed is a confirmation that the country has lost track.

FROM Day One, former Information and Communications Minister and former D-G of NAFDAC, Professor Dora Akunyili, had stood as a brilliant student.

IT is unthinkable that any one individual will go through a 10-month course and not pick up vital lessons that will guide him/her not only on the job but in life generally, so as to be a more productive citizen.

ON April 14, 2007 the people of Delta State trooped out to elect a governor to manage the affairs of the state.Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan was given that mandate, having polled the majority votes in that election.

CONCEPTUALLY, crime can be seen as an infraction of both the basic principles of law and order and the norms of civilised behaviour. No society is immune from this knotty social problem but what differs is the frequency and magnitude of the situation and the response mechanisms to address it.

FOR this purpose, the Institute, in addition to seminars and workshops on an ad hoc or continuing basis, conducts courses for top level participants with a view to expanding their outlook and perspective, and broadening their conceptual capacity and qualities of discernment and analysis.

THE Hardball column on the back page of THE NATION newspaper of December 13, 2010, was as much a broadside against the police high command as it was an ill-informed disparagement of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos in Plateau State.

I HAVE the privilege and humility to come to you today, to formally declare my intention to run for a second term in office as the governor of Abia State, under the banner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the coming 2011 general election.

IT is not an over-statement that Atiku Abubakar is today the greatest champion for demoratic stability and advancement in the country. In life, reward for hardwork is success. Hardwork surely pays. The life story of Atiku Abubakar is full of hardwork, perseverance, patience, diligence, excellence, surprises and success. As an orphan, Atiku beat all odds and emerged as a superstar from a humble beginning.

Eromosele Enahoro was an excellent newsmaker. That would have been sufficient for a prolific journalist that he was, except that Tony Enahoro was most times the news himself.

In 2007, on assumption of office, Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina State established CDCs i.e Community Development Committees.

UNDOUBTEDLY, these are critical times for the electorate in Delta State. Unless any of the eligible candidates for the governorship re-run ordered by the Court of Appeal in Benin, on November 9, 2010, secures an injunction from the court, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, (REC), in Delta State, Dr. Gabriel Adaku, will conduct the gubernatorial re-run on Thursday, January 6, 2011.

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.