THE Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) has in the past 10 years demonstrated gross incompetence.
I postulate that the above statement is not only fact but also true. This discussion is not intended to argue this. However, we will make an attempt to substantiate it.

As far as I am concerned they are all a bunch of media executioners. They have not even bothered with the first golden rule of journalism and law —let the other party be heard. None of our engaging and erudite columnists has spoken to Farouk; and failing that none had put on their thinking caps to ask themselves if Farouk’s right — namely the right to be presumed innocent of the charges — were being violated.

IT bears repeating. Ajaokuta was embarked upon as a strategic industry, a job creator and a foreign exchange SAVER and EARNER. Hence NIOMCO has 1,500 workers while Ajaokuta boasts of 15,000 workers. Ajaokuta was created to inwardly access Technology Transfer.

KAINJI Power Station has to be enlarged as soon as possible to generate more horsepower to the Ajaokuta Iron and Steel Complex. If more Hydro Electric Power Stations are built on the River Niger, it will encourage industrial expansion in Nigeria in general and Kogi, Kwara, Benue, Niger States in particular.

I commiserate with the President’s immediate family and fellow Nigerians in general. Kidney and Heart conditions are not very good combinations for anyone. The President is in dire need of our prayers. While we carry out this humanitarian obligation, it is pertinent to objectively examine the scenarios to determine whether calls for Umaru Yar’Adua’s resignation were timely or ill advised.

ONE of the greatest economic assets available to the Old Kabba Province of Northern Nigeria is the River Niger – the River Niger Old Shipping route and its associated water-power resources, which it shares upstreams with Niger State.

Now, you dare not refer to Obi as trader as he has reinvented himself as a whiz kid banker. He freely talks about his banking days with the likes of Professor Chukwuma Soludo.

IT definitely seemed like a mismatch when the announcement was made in December 2008. A professor of Pharmacy was going to be Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Communications.

IT was the black American Musician Tony Wilson, who sang of the politician as a ‘man of many words.’ Wilson’s satire is a poignant commentary on the politician’s tendency to bamboozle his audience with hot, empty rhetoric. Political leaders who have scant regard for moral values, will most probably be given to flippancy.

Shakespeare it was that wrote: “When beggars die there are no comets seen;/The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” This statement, made by Calpurnia, Caesar’s wife, in Julius Caesar (II, ii, 30-31), references the long standing belief that important events in human lives are somehow signaled by omens in the natural world.