WITH an avalanche of public outcry, there is need for a deep reflection over the recent expulsion of over 70 beggars and destitute by the Lagos State Government to the Upper Iweka Bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State.

SIR, I am writing to you as a bona fide citizen of Nigeria and also as Founder/ National President of Umuada Ndi-Igbo in Diaspora, Inc. (a not for profit women organisation with headquarters in California, USA).

HISTORY of Democracy in Nigeria has shown that it has not been easy for opposition parties since the second Republic to form strong mega party to tame activities of the leading party in power.

Man’s quest for joy, bliss and happiness takes protean venturesomeness and can be likened to the sphygmic temperaments of artifacts, relics and museum scoundrels and thieves standing before sphragistic detectives. They exude grotesque disposition. Hence, the comedian tries to create a balance through comedy.

ON Tuesday, July 30, 2013, a bizarre drama played itself out at the Benin City airport when passengers coming into or leaving the ancient city found to their dismay both the entrance and exit points under lock and key.

Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, the Governor of Delta State, has congratulated Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare who won a silver medal in the Long Jump event of the 14th edition of the Athletics World Championships yesterday in Moscow Russia.

ALL roads led to Kano last June, where the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero marked his 50th year on the exalted throne of Kano.

We have created and employed over 3.5m job seekers since May 29th, 2011’’ say government representatives at various fora, but the statistics and specifics are kept in the vault of imagination.

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from?

It was a stinker, when Edo State Government last week, during a town hall meeting, opened a can of worms from the archive.The unpalatable stench filled the air ; the venue where Governor Adams Oshiomhole gathered his audience to unveil a rigorous investigation and audit report of Primary Schools in the State.