WHEN her time came, she went quietly into the good night. For the late Elder (Mrs.) Comfort Imoke (Nee Imuokhuede), there was no raging against the going out of the light. She had completed her course on earth, as it were.

AS a proud Igbo man, I profess dismay at the columnist Uche Ezechukwu who in the Sun of October 25 and November 1, 2010 took his time to calumniate Ambassador Raph Uwechue, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. This is because I have always had a lot of respect for Mr. Ezechukwu and his journalism.

BY the mid 20th Century, racial discrimination in the United States of America remained entrenched and seemed intractable. But just a little after the turn of the same century, racism in America had regressed to the point of permitting the election of a Black man as the president.

HOWEVER, while he is spending money, luring PDP members to join the ACN more ACN members, tired of Oshiomhole’s dictatorial tendencies, are joining the PDP on daily basis because they have realised that there is a greater measure of internal democracy in the PDP.

TRADITIONAL rulers and elders of Ukehe community in Enugu North Senatorial District converged in Enugu to show solidarity to the Governor, Sullivan Chime, a man acclaimed by even the opposition as the greatest achieving governor of Enugu State.

I was invited to the Kuramo Conference but could not attend because of tight schedule. From newspaper reports the conference was a huge success. The speakers at the conference are leaders of great influence and competence in various fields. As I watched the report of the conference on television I was agitated at the meaning of it all.

THERE is a burgeoning regime of executive rascality, recklessness and lawlessness in Edo State which thrives on serial constitutional infractions perpetrated by the State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in the guise of statecraft.

ON the eve of an election that many have said will define the next 50 years of Nigeria as a country, there is palpable angst that 50 years after, this greatly endowed country is but an economic Lilliputian.

ALFRED Lord Tennyson once wrote: “The heights which great men (and women) reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight.

THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo has finally wielded the big stick in Enugu State.

THE next verse that we will examine is the clincher”. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was 430 years after cannot dis-annull, that it should make the promise of none effect”(Galatians 3:17). What is clearer than this really?

INCONTESTIBLY, getting Britain to agree to Nigeria’s Independence didn’t come on a platter of gold. Nigeria nationalists struggled and fought the colonial lords. From Herbert Macaulay to Azikwe to Awolowo, the fire of nationalism got stoked.

I GET distressed by many things written on the pages of newspapers on varied subjects spanning politics, the economy, education, relationships, religion and others. Often, I feel so agitated that I have felt the need to respond, even though I have very rarely done so.

THEY say he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches him. The Governor Theodore Orji-led administration had after a careful study of the prevailing situation come out with the verdict that it was politically-motivated.

THE unfolding events in the country’s political landscape, most especially the zoning propaganda are daily becoming interesting. No doubt this is a headache of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, because both the proponents and those that are against zoning are all members of the party.