ON the back page of THISDAY Newspapers of Friday June 8, 2012, Nasir El-Rufai in a piece entitled “Anambra’s Budget of Misplaced Priorities” displayed what was in fact a misplaced aggression against Anambra State – her Governor, Mr. Peter Obi and her people.

I read President Goodluck Jonathan’s speech on Democracy Day in the Vanguard Newspaper Online and I felt so disappointed. Without regret, I found its contents the least lucid of all such speeches from the nation’s first citizens since the first republic to date, and including the speeches by all military heads of state.

PERHAPS, if he had caved in to pressure piled on him by many stakeholders in Edo politics to throw his hat in the ring for the governorship seat, multi-billionaire businessman-cum- politician, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, would have by now been traversing the nooks and crannies of the state, mounting the soap box to articulate his promises to the people. Such is the theatrics that have been going on in Edo State in the name of electioneering.

ABIA State is a case study.’ The statement came from no lesser authority than the number one crime buster of Nigeria , Alhaji M D Abubakar- the Acting Inspector General of Nigeria Police during his recent visit to Abia as he was received at the hallowed Executive Chamber, Government House Umuahia.

A FAIR and equitable Nigeria governed by truth and justice calls for presidential power shift to South East Region after the completion of Goodluck Jonathan’s term either in 2015 or 2019 as the case may be.

DR. Vannavar Bush was the man who developed the early technology of what has come down to our age as the computer. But he didn’t see long enough to capture the far-range reach of his work. He didn’t even see up to 20 years of the limitless possibilities of the device he had created.

I was born into a world where evil deed is, and has become cheapy, and good deed, like the feces of a snake, rare to come by.

AS I watched the usually very beautiful Stella Oduah Ogienwonyi, Minister of Aviation, painfully explain to the nation the issues surrounding the Dana airplane crash, one could tell she would rather be found elsewhere, in more buoyant spirits. This certainly was not her turf, nor was it her routine. But you see, we never know what may prevail when duty calls.

Captain Bode Olubiyi was my Uncle. He died on the 20th of April 2012. He had been ill for three years. In the stretch of his career as an airline pilot, he had flown for most of the major airlines in Nigeria: Nigerian Airways, Okada Air, Chachangi Airways, Virgin Airways etc. His career spanned over thirty years in flying Nigerians on Nigerian planes. I was of the opinion that he had impeccable instincts where his job was concerned.

The crash of the DANA Air aircraft in Iju, a Lagos suburb, no doubt has dealt a heavy blow on the nation’s aviation industry. This is not just because of the crash itself but also because of the hasty actions so far taken by government.