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.

WHEN he threw his hat in the ring in 2007 to contest the governorship of Edo State, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole ran a campaign that benefitted from the massive goodwill of the public which flowed from the razzmatazz that he put up while in the saddle as President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and, especially, during the series of labour strikes that always achieved little or nothing in terms of mitigating what the Nigerian people, including the workers, complained about and protested against.

This piece is written to address some of the problems that have cropped up recently in this country, and to appeal to those who are bent on troubling this country to desist, forthwith, from doing so.

Bad government thrives in the dark—a truth, it would seem, President Goodluck Jonathan understood when, defying conventional wisdom, he signed into law the Freedom of Information, FoI, Act.