THE election of Alhaji Kashim Shettima as the Governor of Borno state in the last April elections was recently upheld, by virtue of the dismissal of the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Alhaji Mohammed Goni, challenging the outcome of the election.

WHEN Adams Aliu Oshiomhole burst on to the political arena of Edo State in 2007 a number of people expressed fear that quite a few odds were stacked up against him.

“When women are fully involved, the benefits can be seen immediately: families are healthier and better fed; their income, savings and reinvestment go up. And what is true of families is also true of communities and, in the long run, of whole countries…”

The first step is to approach your subordinate positively with some passion that will involve him/her in the solution finding. If employees are not involved in decisions which affect them, they can never be fully committed.

Can any honest person oppose the capture of biometric data in our civil service? Can any patriotic Nigerian constitute a stumbling block to the unbundling of the bastions of inefficiently run pivotal institutions that have constituted an obstacle to rapid economic development in spite of Nigeria’s abundant natural resources?

The relegation of agriculture to the background at the onset of the oil boom during the 1970s occurred side by side with what has been described in some quarters as the epoch of implantation of corruption in the country.

Edo State Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion, in a syndicated interview with some political reporters, purportedly in Lagos, seized the occasion of the anniversary of his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s third year in office, to hurl uncharitable tirade at Chief Tony Anenih, the Iyasele of Esanland and national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In 1976, the 49 -man Constitution Drafting Committee, headed by the late Chief Rotimi Williams, received 346 memoranda from various groups, individuals and government agencies, on how best to produce a new constitution for Nigeria.

Edo State Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion, in a syndicated interview with some political reporters, purportedly in Lagos, seized the occasion of the anniversary of his boss, Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s third year in office, to hurl uncharitable tirade at Chief Tony Anenih, the Iyasele of Esanland and national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Away from the pomp usually associated with birthdays, Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State celebrated his last birthday doing things that had no bearing with the milestone.