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.

This complexity makes it possible for a man to wear a smile on his face while carrying a dagger in his heart. A woman’s complexion conceals her hearty affection for Mr. A while her lips say “I love you “ to Mr. B. Those who are wise try to simplify their lives by living honestly, and humbly and responsibly. They resolve the complexity by doing to others what they wish others to do to them.

By Eddie Iroh ON December 11, 2009, a mere fortnight before Christmas, a truly great Nigerian was returned to mother earth. His name is Famous Chukwudi Usumero, aka Don Bruce, a stage name he had borne for over thirty years of dedicated service in the entertainment industry.

Nigeria will not be a strong democracy until we become aware that voting is an end, and not a means, to democracy. Free and fair elections are aspects of democracy that only manifest when the other conditions have been met. The only scenario for sustainable democracy in Nigeria is civilization nurtured by mass literacy.

ON the 11th day of November 2008, the Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), one time superpower party in the state polity for nearly 10 years, ceased to govern the people and went into extinction.