IN the last few weeks, the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has dissipated too much energy trading words with his predecessor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, over how Ekiti State, also known as the Fountain of Knowledge, has been badly run and why things are bound to go from bad to worse. Fayose seems to be preoccupied with petty matters making many people to wonder whether the Governor really have much to offer his people.

When, a few weeks ago, Chief Peter Obi, the immediate past governor of Anambra State and one of the stoutest supporters of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, called the bluff of his once beloved party and announced his defection to the Peoples Democratic Party, the frailty of man resonated and the slippery components in the making of legends became apparent.

At a meeting with the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan officially informed them of his intention to seek re-election next year. He made good his promise by picking the party’s nomination form as well as the expression of interest form at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on October 30 this year.

ON Thursday, October 16, 2014), the All Progressives Congress, APC, startled decent Nigerians when its national chairman, Mr. John Odigie-Oyegun, announced that the party put the cost of its expression of interest and nomination forms at the cost of N27.5 million in order “to separate the men from the boys.” Another way of saying this is ‘to separate the wheat from the chaff!’

A COUNTRY that cannot feed itself is doomed. In fact, there are two basic requirements for a country to enjoy absolute sovereignty – the ability to feed itself and the ability to defend itself physically from external aggressions – every other factor is secondary.

OF all the sub-committees of the Constitution Drafting Committee of 1975, none was more important than the subcommittee of the executive and the legislature.

IN his magnum opus and literary tour de force entitled Heauton Timoroumentos the philosopher and essayist Publius Terentius Afer said: “Humo sum ; humani nihil ame alienum puto” ( I am a man; and nothing human is foreign to me).

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has certain ordinariness about him. He carries himself with simple gait and ordered steps.He lacks the arrogant superiority that goes with powerful men of politics in Nigeria .His arrival to an expectant crowd scarcely evokes awe. An encounter even with a casual bystander easily reveals a man patterned to […]

THE main opposition party in Nigeria, All Progressives Congress, APC, may, in fact, be changing name very soon again. Of course the party has had a history of name-changing – from Action Congress, AC, to Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and to the present All Progressives Congress. Lest we forget, it started out originally as Alliance for Democracy before Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his group broke away with the soul of the party to form Action Congress. All these changes were all in search of true identity for the opposition party. And the identity, which the leadership of the APC is working very hard to sell to Nigerians albeit without much success, is that the party is a “progressive” party built on solid “integrity”.

The political theater in Edo State is gripped by sanguin activities: An intrusive legislator was alleged to have been beaten to pulp by opponents, the legislators quarters was said to have been invaded and mayhem was let loose, party chieftains allege gun attack and counter attack on their properties and explosive devices are feared to have been introduced as political weapon.