IT has become the established ritual that most successor governments in Africa tend to rubbish or totally obliterate the strides, contributions and achievements of their predecessors through jaundiced commentaries or outright selective amnesia – all in the name of politics.

POLITICAL developments and governance in Edo State since 1999 have clearly shown how unfortunate the state, popularly referred to as the “Heartbeat of the Nation”, has been without sincere and committed governors to direct its affairs and lead it to the proverbial Promised Land.

IN a remarkable commitment to the sustenance of its zoning and rotational arrangement, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in a bid to deepen the roots of democracy in the country and also maintain its vast electoral fortune has zoned the position of its National Chairman to the North East geo-political zone of the federation.

CITIZEN Chinaza Okoli wrote what he entitled an “Open Letter to Governor Peter Obi” on the Tuesday, October 11, 2011 issue of the DAILY SUN.

ANAMBRA never ceases to amaze me. As a sociologist, I have always taken a keen interest in events around me and as an indigene of Anambra State, Ogidi to be precise, I always pay extra attention to developments in my State.

ON October 1, 2011, Nigerians celebrated the 51st anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. It was a day marked by the same usual festivities, civic rituals and elaborate speeches by the President, governors and other governing officials.

THE NNPC which was set up to prospect and explore oil like its counterparts in Iran, Libya, Venezuela, Brazil etc, suddenly became a net importer and distributor of imported fuel.

He has transformed the Anambra State-owned university by building many structures, including the Mass Communication block, the Law Faculty Library and hostels at the Igbariam campus while doing much more at the Uli campus.

It is regrettable today that politics in Nigeria is getting more brutal, more bizarre and damned bloody. Political assassinations are common place in the agenda of today’s politicians. Our politicians now pursue more eloquently those traits and interests that divide us rather than inventing means of cementing the bonds that unite us.

Wonders, they say, shall never end. The people of Sokoto State are currently witnessing the latest bout of wonders aimed at hoodwinking the very intelligent people of the state into being backing a wrong horse.