AT the last count, 17 out of the 25 candidates who contested the February 6, 2010, Anambra State governorship election, have conceded victory to the APGA’s Peter Obi.

It’s been 1000 days since the present administration in the state took on the mantle of leadership to steer the ship of Lagos to loftier heights. Within these remarkable 1000 days, Lagos has witnessed immense transformation in various sectors of its economy and attestations to these have been received from far and near. Nigerians have been amazed by the massive appreciation in respect of the State Government’s feats, including from outside the shores of the country.

By Moses Iloh GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola’s model of Lagos, the mega-city in the making is miniature Nigeria and the only haven where all and sundry, even beggars run to for respite. Lagos does not belong to the Yoruba, or to Muslims, or to Christians, or to the Action Congress (AC).

MR. Sanusi demonstrated so much pettiness in his write-up titled: “The Nation, OGD and his Shadows” in his column in The Nation of Friday, January 29, 2010, that ignoring him would only serve to encourage further wild-goose chase.

AT the moment, the subject matter is the so called constitutional role for traditional ruler called National Forum for Traditional Rulers which is neither a creation of the constitution nor that of any convention; it cannot serve as an appropriate agency for such transmission.

DR. Reuben Abati’s articles in The Guardian published especially on Fridays and Sundays are always a delight to read, digest, assimilate and kept as a veritable reference material because of their sound editorial quality, lucid packaging, presentation, objectivity and factual content.

It is said that a book is known by the company it keeps. Great books keep great company. Governor Ikedi Ohakim’s “Challenging New Frontiers: Vision, Power, Courage and the Struggle to Transform Imo State, Nigeria” and “Pushing the Limits: Daring to Lead Change in Imo State” are great books because they keep great company. There is no better company for each of these books than one another. The books inhabit symmetrical universes of beauty of forms and words, of rhyme and reason; of syntax and semantics; and of sentiments and sensibilities.

The headline for this piece in honour of the true, the good and the beauty exemplified in two great mortals of our time-Most Rev Valerian Maduka Okeke, the Archbishop of Onitsha and the Metropolitan of the Onitsha Eccl. Province, and Professor Patrick Okey Utomi – has to do with grace and gravity, hence the choice.

We have been treated to tons of analysis since February 6, 2010, when Anambra’s electorate returned Governor Peter Obi for a second term of office. Everyone seems to know in great detail the factors that produced the result that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared. Finding nothing wrong in joining the Joneses, I should have my take on the topical issue

IN Nigeria, genuine patriotism is as difficult to come by as sustained political loyalty. If anything, Nigerians are loyal only to their own interests, especially in political circles.

By Lanre Aminu “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” – Edmund Burke THE functions of law, according to Robert Carp and Roland Stidham, are  to protect individual liberties, provide for the general welfare of the people, protect individuals and property, provide order and predictability and […]

The invited guests were really shaken to see Ahmadu Bello so visibly shaken and in tears. After he was able to collect himself he profusely apologized and explained that Alhaji Ribadu was an upright gentleman who would always give him and the Prime Minister of the Federation honest advice no matter how bitter. He said that most people would normally tend to please him either because of some fear, veneration or expectation of some reward. But what he badly needed was honest advice. He was now much more poorer without Muhammed Ribadu.

The party cannot claim to have integrity when it is still holding on to the money it collected from aspirants. Good conduct and governance are best defined by equity and justice. What informed the choice of Soludo’s over the unarguably better qualified aspirants some of whom have laboured to establish the party in Anambra State over the past 10 years? Soludo may be very tall in learning but what of character?

ONE does not need to be an indigene of Anambra State to be deeply interested in the governorship election coming up there on February 6, 2010. It is not just because the outcome of the Anambra election would serve as a foretaste of what Nigerians should expect in the 2011 general elections.

THE debate was widely publicised, with some heavy names, including international and donor agencies, mentioned as sponsors. The array of partners that organised the debate would at first prove to even cynics that it was a serious exercise. The three-man panel comprising Dr Reuben Abati, Labran Maku and Okey Ikechukwu added its own fillip to the entire exercise.