THE recent re-opening of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot atAba,AbiaState is a landmark achievement and welcome development, especially for the residents of the commercial city ofAba and its environs who have suffered for long due to its closure some years ago as result of insecurity, bunkering and pipeline vandalism.

BEFORE now, poverty, illiteracy and high rate of criminal activities ranging from militancy, piracy, armed robbery, oil pipeline vandalism and incessant attack on oil pipeline and platforms were the order of the day in the Niger Delta region.

YESTERDAY, the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi was 51, but he loathes celebrations, especially when they have epicurean dimension. He would rather preach to you on the futility of presenting to him a gold wrist watch worth millions of Naira when such an amount would equally buy some computers that when donated to schools, will help in moulding the young ones.

OUR attention has been drawn to page 42 of your publication, Vanguard, of Thursday July 12, 2012 on the above subject matter. We wish to assure all Nigerians including PHCN workers that the PHCN Privatisation faces no threat from PHCN workers. The transaction is very much on course as the privatisation of the Successor Companies of PHCN holds great promise for sustainable economic growth and development in our country.

THIS is justification could be likened to the decision of the Obasanjo Presidency at the twilight of his second tenure to award the repair of Onitsha-Owerri road to a local contractor, RCC at about N25 billion against a quote by Julius Berger to the tune of N55 billion.

ONE would have thought that Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State had, to the best of his ability, laboriouslyand exhaustively, responded to the contentious issues raised by the diminutive former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, on the Governor’s budgetary projections and intentions for Anambra State.

WHEN Governor Peter Obi gave me his CV, and indicated his interest for the governorship race in Anambra, from that moment, I knew he will get there and he will also perform.

AND so in the light of the absence of a direct express prohibition as well as the laudable purpose of the SWF a court will be too hesitant to take a narrow view that can prove a disservice to the national interest.

The American Presidential system of government which we currently practice in Nigeria is said to be a system of perpetual campaigns. The end of one election is but a beginning for the next. It is just a little over one year now since the 2011 general elections and the drumbeats for the 2015 elections are already beginning to sound.

HE said to me that for him and a whole lot of successful private sector professionals, partisan politics and indeed politics generally had never been their thing. However, in recent time, he had begun to question such indifference and whether they still have any right to complain when things go so terribly wrong.