WE need no eschatological clairvoyance to know that political-socio-economic vicissitudinary turgescency are inextricably intertwined with developmental strides in the life and times of any individual, state or nation.

I READ the Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie extensive interview in The Guardian of Sunday, September 22, 2013 in which he spoke on the 2015 presidency and the bid by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to seek re-election for a second term in office.

Cyber crime does not respect geographical location; it knows no boundaries, religion or nationality. Cyber criminals attack and spread across the whole world in a matter of minutes, sparing no one.

CHINUA Achebe in his book, There Was A Country , wrote: ” Why has the war not been discussed, or taught to the young, over 40 years after its end?’ History, we were taught, is the story of past events.

While President Goodluck Jonathan was calling for a stronger global consensus and determination to end the scourge of terrorism in faraway New York an unfortunate event had just occurred in Apo area of Abuja, over an alleged exchange of gun shots between security officers and Boko Haram members.

Every country has her own challenges with substandard goods and products, whether manufactured locally or imported, but that of Nigeria is in higher than usual dimensions.

THE current crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is completely absurd and disheartening, particularly when you consider the fact that those behind it are people who have benefited from the party. Some have occupied key offices as long as 12 years, enjoying all the benefits of this office.

A short while ago, series of articles on “the Igbo race and their unrestrained quest for dominance” churned out from the pen of Femi Fani-Kayode.

It is not wishful. Neither it is a conjecture that the Itsekiris, whether consciously or otherwise, would prefer somebody of Anioma extraction to a candidate from any part of the state as governor in 2015.

Events of the last few months are throwing interpretation of democracy to another level. It is no more what the great philosophers from the ancient Greece meant it to be. For them, the Greeks, it is government of the people for the people by the people.