In defending his master’s action, the Special Assistant to Dr. Sam Egwu the former Minister of Education who was alleged to have made this strange recommendation to the then acting President, Mr. Kelechi Igwe said the recommendation was based on “security report” on the candidate that should have been offered the appointment.

Thus – in my books – it is easy to understand why and how the feats of two illustrious ring warriors have painfully been cancelled out by the passivity of the same one-time trail-blazing sport that has swept itself into a pathetic back-bencher position. This is the sad anniversary account of 50 years of boxing in Nigeria.

WHEN former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s campaign team grabbed Ben Murray Bruce to coordinate their campaign in 1999, no one was in doubt that the team had struck gold. When it comes to putting up a show, you couldn’t ask for a better man than Ben Bruce.

THE news of the resolution by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at its last retreat in Calabar to seek time extension for the forthcoming elections in January 2011 did not come to me as a surprise.

SOON, Abia State governor, Chief Theodore Ahamuefula Orji (Ochendo) would declare his intent for a second term in office on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

IT was more or less the same story in neighbouring Kenya. Prime Minister Odinga, a Kikuyi , who won the election wanted control of the Central Bank of Kenya.

DURING his address to the State House of Assembly on why the bill should be passed into law, Governor Amaechi explained that the law would consolidate all the recent developments in the education and health sectors.

Your editorial of September 24th 2010 titled: “The Balewa Saga” raised some interesting issues and frankly amused me. This was especially so when the writer asserted that “at five” I “was too young to have known what happened” and that I am relying on what my father told me “to refute Mbu’s story”.

It is heartening that the new Minister of Education has refused to grant approval to the management of the institute to commence expansion program that will allow it award degrees until she is satisfied that it has the capacity to effectively perform its mandate.

THE jumbled and slapdash pattern of providing free social services to the people by some States and regions over the years in Nigeria has consistently failed to produce desired results.

MANY Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), especially state governors, have understandably become desperate ahead of the primaries of political parties that begin next month.

All the decisions he has taken, including the recent defection to PDP has been applauded and supported by the people. He has not miscalculated, because he consults widely. So what did Ohajuruka wants the people to believe and accept?

ALL states in Nigeria have always touted their commitment to attract investors, both local and foreign. The governors and key states officials have had cause to embark on countless foreign tours for this purpose.

The result of this was that many of us crafted our personal dreams and our dreams for our community and nation into one large dream. Our personal dream was woven into the fabric of our national dream, the Nigerian Dream, and soon we came to see and experience both as one and the same thing.

THIS is not the best of times for Governor Emmanuel Ewetan Udugahan, the Delta State Governor. The bell of his first tenure is tolling ominously, yet he is looking forward to a second term.