A witty political godfather exerts immeasurable influences and compels irresistible obedience from his helpless beneficiaries. Such unbending manipulation played out during the events that led to the impeachment of Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, the erstwhile deputy governor of Enugu State.

Mouths are still aghast as to how Onyebuchi ignored wise counsel and chose the inglorious path charted by people who wanted to use him to test the viability of their political strength. As it has now turned out, it was a worthless gamble.

IN the heat of the global human carnage that was the Second World War, Britain’s famed politician and war-time leader, Winston Churchill, gave a significant new insight into the affairs of humankind.

THE recently held International Youth Day Conference in Abuja was an occasion for President Goodluck Jonathan to address economic, political and other issues with specific relevance to the Nigerian youths.

FIGURES from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, show that for 2012, the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, for the 36 states of Nigeria was about N555 billion, out of which the 19 states of the North generated N87 billion or 15 %; the South West generated N261.2 billion or 47%; the South-South accounted for N150 billion or 27% and the South East N45 billion or 8%. In other words, the South generated N 468 or 85 % of the total IGR for 2012.

FOR many football lovers, the mystery fire that gutted the NFF Glass House in Abuja, almost destroying the Accounts Department, has already been tainted as an act of man, not of God, although proper investigations will tell us which is which.