BY JUDE IDUGBOE I spent some time following the recent debate in the House of Representatives on the bill to halt what is viewed as a stranglehold on the pay-TV sector of the broadcast industry. The bill, which passed second reading at the House two weeks ago, was sponsored by  Mrs. Aisha Dahiru-Modibbo. It seeks an […]

The notion that the average politician must be dyed in the hue of opposition and be constantly set in a combative mode against the government at the center as a means of demonstrating one’s love for his kith and kin, especially in the way it is promoted in the South west, is an idea that is repugnant to Hon. Adedayo Adeyeye, the Minister of State for Works.

ALL the military rulers since the civil war were from the North, and did not give Igbos the second Niger Bridge. The civilian government that followed ignored that need of the Igbos. President GEJ is the one who seems to appreciate this key need of the Igbo people and is working on it. Yet you find the Imo State Governor antagonising the President. The Governor claims that he fetes Chief Sam Mbakwe, but Mbakwe’s political strategies are completely lost on him.

THE leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, must have celebrated when a suicide bomber blew himself up and killed 47 students at the assembly ground of the Government Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum, Yobe State, on Monday, November 10, 2014.

MANY are of the opinion that Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Governor of Lagos State, has performed wonderfully well. In fact, he is often used as a reference point for good governance and how democracy dividends should be delivered.