I READ the interview by the Edo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Louis Odion, in the National Mirror of Wednesday, November 2, 2011 wherein he claimed that his boss and governor of Edo, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, inherited a bankrupt state.

NIGERIANS are quite aware that civil servants both at the state and federal level have over the years remained a stumbling block to the smooth running of government.

IT is challenging for me to write about my father, Hilary Nmerengwa Isiguzo, in the past. It is more frustrating still not feeling that he is dead. I returned to the house after his passing, at 82, expecting a surge of emotions that would have pressed the message home – there was none.

In January 2008, Vanguard published my review article on the late Wangari Maathai’s “Unbowed: A memoir”. I am reproducing it below as a tribute to the late Nobel Peace Laureate.

Only two political parties are hopeful of winning the 2012 governorship election in Edo State: The ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. And since it is now clear that ACN is sticking to the comrade governor, it is left for the PDP, as the main opposition party, to provide the state with an alternative whose antecedents do not fall short of the peoples expectation come 2012.

In Nigeria, the battle to accord its citizens full access to healthcare is being prosecuted by the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

In July 2008, Sen. Prof. Oserheimen Os unbor, then as the governor of Edo State, set up a special committee on Youth Development and Empowerment under the chairmanship of the deputy governor, Mr. Lucky Imasuen.

THE frontline leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been very reticent about the party’s criteria for nominating its flagbearer in the 2012 gubernatorial election in Edo State. This has given rise to a number of speculations amongst the people.

IT is disheartening and very frustrating when I read a piece on the above subject matter on October 28, 2011 in the Vanguard by Michael Onhiwbere.

COMRADE Adams Oshiomhole had no problems at all in securing the ticket of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for the 2012 gubernatorial election. He was said to have simply called a few of his close friends