IT says a lot about the disconnect between the House of Representatives and the state of the nation that at a time of tense concern about threats to internal security and territorial integrity, Speaker Aminu Tambuwal can only think of resuming the petty inquisition against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, that has ridiculed the legislators’ sense of purpose.

ONE of Africa’s greatest figures, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, coined the term ‘neo-colonialism’ to encompass the yoke of expectational burdens imposed on developing countries by elements from advanced countries or former colonialists.

BY the time the Chibok girls were abducted, it was clear to the whole world that the Nigerian forces, do not have the capacity to contain the Boko Haram insurgents and so, many countries volunteered their assistance.

IN security matters, it is difficult to describe a planned event as phantom, because the men who create the events are likely to un-create it and put the uninitiated in a state of doubt, as it was in the much reported planned trip of President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will never cease to amaze with his simplistic ways and rationalisations. On the Boko Haram insurgents whose abduction of over 200 school girls in Chibok, Borno state, that has now taken centre stage, globally, the President simply dismissed criticisms of his reported aborted trip to Chibok, contending that it was not mandatory for him to visit the town.