PROMINENT citizens, including elders, traditional rulers and political leaders in Uyo Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State, have continued to reject any third term aspiration to the Senate by aspirants in the forthcoming 2011 elections.

ON this, the eve of the general elections, it is again evident that the Anioma are on the road to self-immolation. Those who attack the ideology and or philosophical foundation of democracy have opined that it is only at election time that the people have any weight.

CIROMA is threatening disintegration on the platform of Goodluck’s presidential ambition. Ciroma is reminding people that a man not from the stock of those with the ‘divine right’ to rule Nigeria should not stand in national elections. Ciroma’s bias is obvious.

From the Middle East to the Southern American regions of Venezuela and to the Niger Delta of Nigeria, mass deposits of oil, onshore or offshore, is the wealth that continually threatens world peace.

SINCE his impeachment as deputy governor of Abia State and subsequent travails in the hand of security agents over his alleged link with the spate of kidnapping that had rocked the state in recent times before the military intervention, I have been following and watching the utterances and actions of Comrade Chris Akomas and cohorts, especially as they have attributed every of their ordeals to his former boss, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia.

WHAT is more, Governor Obi has increased the university’s subvention.
Following the on-going strike embarked upon by ASUU (South-East), this most Education-friendly Governor has jerked the pay of the lecturers by 50 per cent from N15 million to N50 million and now to N81 million.

IT is no longer news that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) South-East Zone, have been locked in a battle with the South-East Governors of Nigeria.

THE death of former President Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has since opened a new vista in the scramble for presidential power.

IT is almost impossible to ply the Benin-Sagamu highway and not end up with a feeling of regret and bitterness at how much seriousness the government attaches to this vital project, and by implication the welfare of its citizens.

IT is utterly amazing that a man who had been in a political lacuna for a sustained period of time was thrown a political lifeline and climbs unexpectedly back to a great height through a particularly strong ladder literally, only to dramatically jettison the same resilient ladder he used in getting back to the top as not being fit for that purpose, within just a few months of exploiting the same ladder.