For those of us, I mean the intellectuals from Bayelsa State, who know the antecedents of President Goodluck Jonathan from A-Z, we are simply stupefied by the seemingly plotless, shapeless and undignifying drama staged around the N18,000 minimum wage.

I read with disgust the current motion for a single term of six years for both the President and the governors. Mr. President, there are more immediate issues than tenure elongation. The country is groaning under severe maladministration for which we voted you in to effect correction.

I read Ishaq Modibbo Kawu’s column of July14, 2011 entitled “The Commentator’s Burden” in which he descended heavily on Ochereome Nnanna for challenging his viewpoint in an earlier write-up. Kawu accused Nnanna of being a Biafranist in the said article because of his perceived anti-North/ Islamic sentiments.

The July 10, 2011 heavy rain has come and gone leaving behind loss of billions worth of property, death and soil erosion. The heavy rain affected Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states.

President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, this year. By now, one expects that he should have settled down to the serious business of governance. But, rather, the man is still grappling with only just one problem- the challenges of security. Especially that arising from the Boko Haram crisis.

YET cliché purists would agree that Oshiomhole’s “let the people lead” is one formula that is capable of firing in the citizenry the patriotic commitment to government and governance.

I was in Abuja on the last Saturday of June 2011 and found that I could not leave my home or attend to any business activities until after 10.00am. It was environmental sanitation day. I remembered with angst, the military brutality that attended the introduction of environmental sanitation in Nigeria.

President Goodluck Jonathan appointed two new Special Advisers last week. They are Professor Sylvester Monye, the Special Adviser on Monitoring and Evaluation and Dr. Nwanze Okidegbe, the Chief Economic Adviser. During their swearing-in ceremony at the Presidential Villa, the President made a telling statement.

Indeed, avoiding the discussion of the real issues this subject raises, by accusing Nigeria’s Christian leaders of Islamaphobia, reduces the debate to a question of religion, which is regrettable and a diversion.

LAGOS is presently experiencing such phenomenal population explosion that it is being projected to be the third largest megacity in the world by 2015.