At the conclusion of the April 2011 general elections it was considered expedient to have three election petitions tribunals established forAnambra State.

There are signs that Nigerians have begun to experience a remarkable improvement in power supply. This, from my experience as an electricity consumer, is true for the past two weeks or thereabouts.

The Vanguard interview with Mr Osa Director, published on Saturday, August 13, made an interesting reading. His responses to the questions were smooth, almost silk-like. I didn’t expect anything less from him, after all, he has practiced as a journalist for over 20 years, rising to the very top in the process.

The proposal by President Goodluck Jonathan for a single six-year tenure for presidents and governors,and an extension of tenure for National Assembly members,has been generating a lot of controversy in the polity.

A group of Bini indigenes known as Oshiomhole/Odubu second term, a reality said there is no vacancy for the positions of the Governor/Deputy Governor in Edo State come 2012 election.

That , perhaps, may be carrying our collective eccentricities and mutual fears, too far,too soon. When it is realised that the North does not fit into the strait-jacket description or compartmentalisation of being inhabited solely by Muslims because there is a large oasis of Christians in the ‘Desert of Boko Haram Muslims’, that is the Middle Belters- Benue,Plateau axis, Taraba, Adamawa and the people of Southern Zaria in Kaduna State are Christians.

Though time worn, the saying that “charity begins at home” is still a relevant standard for measuring the generosity or goodness of a man. Over time, many a man of public acclaim for goodness have failed the test in their responsibility to their own family, kith or kin. Of such a kind it seems Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Governor of Edo State and erstwhile labour leader agitator typifies.

The sudden emergence of the Muslim militant sect with its earliest base in Borno State within the past two years had gradually assumed the ferocious dimensions of an Aqaeda group whose pattern of killings and bombings is beginning to be a thorn in the flesh of security agencies in Nigeria.

Very few subjects can boast of generating the kind of interest the issue of political leadership in the South-East Nigeria has done over the years. The unflagging commentary it spawns every so often bespeaks of the people’s unwavering concern over the issue.

I believe that, as Nigerians, we should welcome everyopportunity to broaden the base of popular participation in economic activities. Poverty has persisted in the country for so long because the economic space has excluded many disadvantaged groups like the Niger Delta.