By Ifeanyi Okoye ON the first day of January 2009, Emeka Etiaba, a legal practitioner and  businessman  with over 20 years experience in active legal practice took the political landscape in Anambra State by storm as he declared his intention to contest the 2010 governorship election under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, […]

By Sunday Antai RATIONAL experience has shown that humans are born into a parenthesis marked: “born and dead”. Within the opening and closing brackets is the totality of our experiences in life. Sadly, however, this aphorism which plays out daily, only falls on the ears of  humans who are mostly steep in vanity and profanity, […]

By Gab Ejuwa WILLIAM Shakespeare it was who said, “In my stars I am above thee but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them”. Dr Theodore Ahamefule Orji, the   third Executive Governor of Abia State, might not have been born great, but certainly […]

By Emeka Oraetoka THE genesis of the recent Federa Government directive to Lagos State government to revert back to the original 20 local government areas recognised by the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria is well known to all to warrant elaboration here. However, it may be necessary to understand that it surely amounts to […]

By Emeka  Ezenwaka A RECENT visit to Anambra State confirmed that the state is caught in the web of another election fever. Available spaces in the state capital – walls, signboards, trees and open spaces -have been covered with campaign posters of many gubernatorial candidates jostling to take a shot at the Government House, Awka, […]

THE brazen decision of the Lamido Sanusi-led Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sack the CEOs and Executive Directors of Oceanic Bank, Afribank, Intercontinental Bank, Union Bank and Finbank should be treated with the due suspicion that it deserves.

By Ogwazu  Nnamdi THE resolution by my community to create some social services like water borehole and pipe laying to distribute same, electricity development and secondary education building project without recourse to the government saw monetary contributions made. As typical of an Ibo society, defaulters in financial contributions were harassed/intimidated by the masquerades and the […]

By Tunde Oyasanya THE news of Boko Harram insurgence in Northern parts of the country filtered to me while I was away in Ado Ekiti from Abuja on official assignment. Meanwhile, I didn’t get the full gist of the carnage and I became curious. I could not wait till the next day to read from […]

By Allan Adepoju MORE than any other Nigerian first generation  state, Kwara State has demonstrated higher capacity for political theatrics. Time there was that two incumbent governors – Alhaji Adamu Atta in 1983 and the late retired Rear Admiral Muhammed Alabi Lawal in 2003 – kissed the dust after fierce electoral battles with the septuagenarian […]

By Sunday Dare IT was with great effort that I concluded reading your(Dele Sobowale) last weekend’s disquisition on the re-branding of Dora Akunyili our Honourable Minister for Information and Communication, and principal exponent of the Re-branding Nigeria project. Your title reads, “Re-branding Akunyili and Ohakim”, but I will concentrate on the innuendoes and factual errors […]

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye “SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest,I withdraw from the still woods I loved, I will not go now on the pastures to walk…”– Walt Whitman (1819-1892) in the poem, ‘This Compost’. IN October 2004, Professor Chinua Achebe told Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s “civilian” ruler at the time, that Nigeria […]

By Magnus Eze FOR Ogbonna Okechukwu Onovo, his appointment as Acting Inspector General of Police July 22 and subsequent confirmation by the Nigeria Police Council, August 4, capture the age-long saying, that “the patient dog eats the fattest bone”. Onovo had previously acted, though briefly, as IG of the Nigeria Police Force in 2007, before […]

By David Ifode Robert  K.  Greenleaf in his book, The Servant as a Leader says: “Foresight is the ‘Lead’ that the leader has. Once he loses this lead and events start to force his hand, he is a leader in name only. He is not leading; he is reacting to immediate event and he probably […]

By Mike Igini IN 2004, when the forces of tribe and indigene almost truncated the Governing Council recommendation of the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin(UNIBEN),  Professor Nwanze, after the selection process and he came tops on the list, I drew the attention of the Federal Government then in a published article […]

By Richard Tosanwumi Serious politicians in  our country know that it takes about 18 months for intending contestants to prepare for a presidential election, and 12 months for a governorship election. In case of totally fresh aspirants for both positions, it will certainly take as much longer period because of their inexperience in the politicking […]