OVER the last few weeks I have seen increasing claims and calls by Ndokwa leaders agitating for power shift to Delta North and at the same time calling that the next governor should under the powershift arrangement come from Ndokwa land of Delta North.

LAST Sunday March 2, 2014 editorial of The Nation newspapers with title: An Elitist Sermon, is yet another in the growing series of poorly thought out and betrayed emotions that is characterising the media in recent time and one that calls for an urgent transformation if the media is not to lose its historic place of value in Nigeria.

A RIVER usually becomes calm, absolutely calm only after a perilous turbulence. With phenomenal confidence and pride voyagers ply the river because the calmness is their constant supplicatory obsession. Niger Delta was once turbulent because the Federal Government of Nigeria was insensitive to its rhythm of underdevelopment.

WITHIN a week many developments occurred in a jiffy. From the arrest of the suspected killers of Islamic Cleric, Sheik Adam Albani, to attacks in North-Eastern states and now to the recent warning signals from the Defence Headquarters on alleged sympathisers and backers of terrorist groups.

Every now and again I read Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, in the newspapers, where he is speaking in his capacity as Co-Chairman of the National Assembly Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution. Usually, he is making a spirited defence of some “important” positions on national issues which his Committee might be taking. I feel sorry for Senator Ike Ekweremadu because it appears nobody is really interested in joining issues with him on anything, including even his favoured six-year single term for a President and our 36 Governors. It is almost as if close to 170 million Nigerians at home and abroad have conspired to ignore him and his Committee.