On his 52nd birthday today, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu will be celebrated by his colleagues in the Senate. He will be celebrated by his party-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He will also be celebrated by his friends in and outside government. The celebratory tributes will sum up the man’s quintessence and the praxis of his loyalty since he stepped in the saddle as Deputy Senate President on June 5, 2007.

It is said that a prophet is with honour except in his own home. This axiom was put to question recently at Yola, Adamawa State when the erstwhile National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was hosted to a civic reception by the Adamawa State chapter of the PDP.

If former Secretary to the State Government, Obarisi (Barr.) Ovie Omo-Agege decides to seek the governorship of Delta State in 2015, there will be little political oxygen left for anyone else. I have taken so many factors into consideration to arrive at the conclusion that Omo-Agege, who came second to the two-term incumbent Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in the PDP primaries in 2007, will become the Delta PDP best-selling candidate, the ultimate game changer as soon as he joins the race.

IT is 53 years since independence and Nigeria as a country is still travelling on reverse gear because the country has refused to look back. Philosophers are right when they say that looking back also means looking forward.

IN the last few weeks, the issue of the abduction of nearly 200 students of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State has been largely politicised. Rarely are the real mothers of the girls seen these days on television as some really concerned women and opportunists have taken the centre stage and relishing the attendant publicity, while the parents have been pushed to the background.