October 21, Akwa Ibom State was agog as the erstwhile Secretary to the State Government, Deacon Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, finally heeded what was decidedly a popular call to throw his hat in the gubernatorial ring. The crowd that thronged the Uyo Township Stadium was both mammoth and awe-inspiring by its sheer- number and passion displayed.

PEOPLE will instinctively kick against change. It is understandable. What would be confounding, however, is when opposition to change persists even when empirical evidence and facts have been put forward.

In his recent contradictory statements in the Guardian newspaper ofTuesday October 23, 2014, Professor Attahiru Jega appears intent upon fomenting conflict with his new polling unit allocations, which he appears besotted with irrespective of informed advice to the contrary from the Senate, security agencies, INEC Commissioners, and the political parties’ chairmen he sought their views at a meeting he convened. This is in addition to his defiance of an on-going matter in court instituted by a political party.

FORMER military dictator and presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, is continuing his trademark politics of bitterness, blackmail and fear mongering.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, right from inception, has always battled to shed the toga of a party whose interest is mainly skewed in favour of the North and Muslim interests. Until the appointment- not election- of Odigie Oyegun to the position of Chairman, all of the principal officers were mainly Muslims. So, when a […]

THE year 2014 is a symbolic for Nigeria. This year the nation marked its Centenary – 100years since the amalgamation of the Nigerian nation.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has taken quite a few knocks. That is the unalloyed truth: Boko Haram, the Chibok girls abduction, an unenviable record as the first President in Nigeria to be dubbed “clueless” and a tendency to be unbelievably patient in the face of extreme provocation by supposed friends and foes alike. None of these things have served him well in recent times.

The flagging off of political activities earlier this month by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has sparked a whirlwind of campaign activities and widened the horizon for consultation and formation of common fronts.

FOR me, the mantra of Change is not new. Some believe it passionately while others hate it. Some even hate me for just the thought of it. The truth is, like it or hate it, or even hate me, the idea that there is a likelihood of change in the Cross River State political environment is a given?

WE woke up on Saturday October 18, 2014, to newspaper screaming headlines of a ceasefire with the Boko Haram, by the Chief of Defense Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Bade issuing a directive to the service chiefs of the Army, Navy and the Air Force, and the Inspector General of Police, to comply with the cease fire agreement on all areas of operations.