DESPITE the hues and cries, our senior citizens continue to suffer and wallow in abject poverty, daily.

HE does not strike you as desperate. At least that is the general impression of the man. He is also has control over his emotions as he rarely betrays anxiety.

A WRITTEN constitution is not a prerequisite for democracy. Not surprisingly, some flourishing democracies have no written constitution and some failed democracies had some wonderfully crafted constitutions.

THE senseless, brutal killings of four students of the University of Port Harcourt by mobsters, last October, sadly warns the practice of “Jungle Justice” is so flourished in Nigeria that an evasive shout of “thief, thief” has become a combustible alarm sounded by insolvent debtors to consume their creditors.

SILENCE as they say, is sometimes golden. Over the past few months, both the regular and social media had been inundated with stories rumours, conjectures, speculations and what has been proven to be false and morbid imaginings about the state of health of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State.

THEY have stabbed themselves for freedom – jumped into the waves for freedom – fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians—Lydia Maria.

I have always been fascinated by the actions and inactions of government, be it at the federal level, the state level, or the local level. My father, the late Chief J. L. Omigbodun, was involved in governance at the local level in the 1950s as a part-time chairman of the Osogbo District Council.

THEY want to eat their cake and have it – scream for Igbo presidency in 2015 until they froth in the mouth, knowing this to be unrealistic, knowingly being deceptive – selling us down the drain in the dark but, simultaneously, presenting themselves as champions of the Great Igbo cause during the day.

AS the State prepares to go to the poll to usher in his successor, it is necessary that the people should guard against the mistakes of the past. If truth be told, the factors that engendered past political violence have not disappeared.

Pretending they have will only mean one thing – unwillingness to guard against possible relapse.

MOST rape research and reporting to date have been limited to male-female forms of rape. In Nigeria, cases of rape have gone up from 12.5 to 84 per cent, as incidents of female-male rape are beginning to unfold.

Recently, three women were arraigned before a Higher Shari’a Court in Gusau for allegedly raping a 20-year-old man, Abdulrahman Sulaiman and in Ogbadibo Local Government area of Benue State, and a man; Uroko Onoja was allegedly raped to death by his six jealous wives.