GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha may not have imagined the extent of viral and collateral damage his characteristic bravado will spiral into, when he personally supervised the closure of Abia Line loading bay at 5 Wetheral Road Owerri Imo State.

ON assumption of office in 2008, Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, left no one in doubt that the Airport Road, a major gateway to Benin City, the state capital, was one of his prime projects sitting atop others in terms of priority.

OVER the years, creating a solid baseline for effective and stable political parties has remained an issue of concern especially among the electorate and members of the political class.

Nobody goes to politics without being smeared. And you stand the risk of making more enemies than friends. The purpose of life is the pursuit of happiness, which is not necessarily accomplished in active politicking – Chief MKO Abiola.

ONE of the most debilitating diseases of the modern world is called “Comparisonitisis” – The tendency to measure one’s worth by comparing oneself to other people.

DEATH is especially tragic because of its finality. It is also never expected and that is why everyone receives the news of the death of any acquaintance as something of a deep shock.

I would say that I have been fortunate to experience the Nigerian environment and society. The mere fact of daring into a society hitherto unknown to me has also made me stronger and braver for a lifetime.

WHEN Chinedu Nebo, then a ministerial nominee spoke of casting out witches and demons during Senate screening, he must have thought that he was deploying an innocuous metaphor which any reasonable person would ordinarily decipher.

Apparently anxious to divert attention from the many internal crises ripping the party apart and daily rendering it more vulnerable in the forthcoming 2015 elections, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a mischievous and utterly misleading attack on the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

THE above excerpt taken from Achebe’s debut novel, Things Fall Apart, aptly describes the fate that befell the people of Northern Nigeria as soon as the then British colonial overlords abdicated in favour of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto and the then Premier of Northern region.