SINCE his impeachment as deputy governor of Abia State and subsequent travails in the hand of security agents over his alleged link with the spate of kidnapping that had rocked the state in recent times before the military intervention, I have been following and watching the utterances and actions of Comrade Chris Akomas and cohorts, especially as they have attributed every of their ordeals to his former boss, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia.

WHAT is more, Governor Obi has increased the university’s subvention.
Following the on-going strike embarked upon by ASUU (South-East), this most Education-friendly Governor has jerked the pay of the lecturers by 50 per cent from N15 million to N50 million and now to N81 million.

IT is no longer news that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) South-East Zone, have been locked in a battle with the South-East Governors of Nigeria.

THE death of former President Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has since opened a new vista in the scramble for presidential power.

IT is almost impossible to ply the Benin-Sagamu highway and not end up with a feeling of regret and bitterness at how much seriousness the government attaches to this vital project, and by implication the welfare of its citizens.

IT is utterly amazing that a man who had been in a political lacuna for a sustained period of time was thrown a political lifeline and climbs unexpectedly back to a great height through a particularly strong ladder literally, only to dramatically jettison the same resilient ladder he used in getting back to the top as not being fit for that purpose, within just a few months of exploiting the same ladder.

BUT for a formal declaration, the South-East zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU], is locked in a battle with the Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo state governments which own the five state universities where ASUU members have refused to teach for the past four months.

ONCE I read the article entitled “Uwechue’s sad swan song (1)” on the back page of the Sun of Monday October 25, 2010, I decided on examining the question it addressed. Upon reading the second half of the piece a week later, it became obvious to me that Uche Ezechukwu, the author, had needlessly degraded and devalued the integrity and cathedral majesty that his weekly Capital Matters column should normally commands.

A nation can only advance forward in the provision of pow-er, infrastructure, water supply, and security and as well revolutionise the state of agriculture, housing, education, health and employment, if there is Corporate Social Responsibility in governance. But from events and observations hereunder, it is not practicable for us to do so.

PROMINENT citizens, including elders, traditional rulers and political leaders in Uyo Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State, have continued to reject any third term aspiration to the Senate by aspirants in the forthcoming 2011 elections.

In his time_honoured characterization of successful leaders, Niccolo Machiavelli, author of the famous political treatise, The Prince said “While fate and fortune determine one half of our lives, the other half, will depend on us.”

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.