UNDERSTANDABLY, there have been outpourings of commendations and felicitations from different quarters of Ogun State and beyond in the run up to the 55th birthday anniversary of Otunba Gbenga Daniel. And this Wednesday which is the D-day the goodwill will reach its crescendo for the helmsman of Ogun State. For a man who has spent the last eight years charting the way forward for the Gateway State this is to be expected.

THE original mandate of ASCON was to align the peculiar workings of public bureaucracy to the academic knowledge from the universities and polytechnics.

THE diplomatic twisted tongues of Washington and Brussels (European Union capital) cautioning restraint in Egypt’s 18-day revolt that ousted their main point’s man, in the region. Mr. Hosui Mubarak has given way to straight and hard talk in the case of Libya , whose eccentric leader, Muammar Ghaddafi has traditionally annoyed and irritated the powerful capitals.

IT is high time legislators in the State Houses of Assembly and the National Assembly waded into the atrocities being perpetrated by the professional associations and some government agencies which subject civil servants to avoidable exasperation and frustration in their civil service career progressions.

WHEN Deltans go to the polls on April 2, 2011, the issue of who will best represent the interest of the Anioma national groups is an abiding reality that they must confront.

FOR students and scholars of political science as well as political history, the Congress for Political Change, CPC, the last registered of the 63 Nigerian political parties, would for long remain an interesting subject of study.

NO election is complete in the United States without a comprehensive background check on the candidates.

THE emerging global political thought is that most government leaders in developing economies solve personal and parochial problems with public funds while ignoring the common-health of their people. In such economies, the line between national wealth and the leader’s wealth is so thin that many of the leaders are seen as the state.

THE emerging global political thought is that most government leaders in developing economies solve personal and parochial problems with public funds while ignoring the common-health of their people.

There are several categories of leaders we can talk about in oil producing communities in Nigeria. There are youth leaders, who usually provide leadership for the militant wing of the community; there are appointed or elected elders, most of whom are elders that are often a blend of illiterates, semi-literates and literates; and there are activists and agitators, some of whom are appointed by the respective communities, and some others gradually become leaders because of the prominence and visibility secured from their robust activism.