ALFRED Lord Tennyson once wrote: “The heights which great men (and women) reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight.

THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo has finally wielded the big stick in Enugu State.

THE next verse that we will examine is the clincher”. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was 430 years after cannot dis-annull, that it should make the promise of none effect”(Galatians 3:17). What is clearer than this really?

INCONTESTIBLY, getting Britain to agree to Nigeria’s Independence didn’t come on a platter of gold. Nigeria nationalists struggled and fought the colonial lords. From Herbert Macaulay to Azikwe to Awolowo, the fire of nationalism got stoked.

I GET distressed by many things written on the pages of newspapers on varied subjects spanning politics, the economy, education, relationships, religion and others. Often, I feel so agitated that I have felt the need to respond, even though I have very rarely done so.

THEY say he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches him. The Governor Theodore Orji-led administration had after a careful study of the prevailing situation come out with the verdict that it was politically-motivated.

THE unfolding events in the country’s political landscape, most especially the zoning propaganda are daily becoming interesting. No doubt this is a headache of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, because both the proponents and those that are against zoning are all members of the party.

Election is the deliberate exercise of the citizenry in selecting a person or persons by the process casting of votes on a day legally established to determine the winner of a political office so entitled for a specified tenure.

There was no foreboding, whatsoever, for the pleasant surprise this Monday morning. The flight from Lagos to the new Akwa Ibom International Airport in Uyo was painless. The jerky landing associated with most local flights was absent.

I do not envy Ayogu Eze, spokesman for the Senate, on whose shoulders the usually challenging duty of cleaning up the mess in the Upper Chambers of the National Assembly falls.