POLITICS in Nigeria today, like the days of Babylon between the rich and the poor, has brought even more very glaring mixture of grandeur and squalor as represented by the huge wealth of the elected and the poverty of the supposed voters.

Bafana Bafana coach Shakes Mashaba believes Wednesday’s African Nations Cup qualifier against Nigeria will be a ‘defining moment’ for his team.

DEMOCRACY, by Jeffersonian, Lincolnian and Grecian normative standard, is the political doctrine that recognises the institutionalisation of liberal structures of governance that enfranchises and gives the people the rights to elect and remove their leaders. It concretizes the basis of their participation in the decision–making process and enhances their freedoms. Indeed, a government of the people, by the people for the people.

AND so death came to Professor Raymond Nnadume Chidubem Okafor-Nwanya on July 31, 2014. Born on February 28, 1940, he attended primary education at Sacred Heart School, Calabar from January 1950, to December 1956. He later enrolled into College of Immaculate Conception, CIC, Enugu from January 1957 to December 1961 and subsequently Holy Family College, Abak, Akwa Ibom State from January 1962 to December 1964 for his secondary and higher school career, respectively.

Again, the constituents of Ondo East/West Federal Constituency in Ondo State have widely benefited from a mega empowerment programme sponsored by Hon. Joseph Iranola Akinlaja. In his usual practice, Akinlaja ensured that the far reaching initiative indiscriminately touched every part of the communities within his constituency.

Nigeria as a country today faces a barrage of significant issues that if not addressed in the very near future may stall or even halt the economy and national GDP completely.

It is noteworthy that since after the recent Iriji Mbaise festival, Governor Rochas Okorocha and his band of apologists have not recovered from the shock of the reality of Hon. Emeka Ihedioha’s increasing popularity across Imo State.

I am impressed by the recommendation of the sub-committee of the National Delegates Conference on Securities for the creation of Ministry or Department of Homeland Securities.

Since its inception in the 90’s, precisely on August 27th, 1991 when then military regime of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida took a bold step of carving out the present Adamawa State out of Old Gongola, splitting it into Taraba and Adamawa States; Adamawa has not been lucky with efficient political leadership.

Internal party democracy is a key ingredient of any democratic system of government. This is because democracy ought to begin from the parties and how they choose their candidates for the election proper. If the candidates are chosen otherwise than in line with tenets of democracy, then the political space would be tainted and no true democracy can be said to be in existence.