THERE is no gainsaying the fact that some people are out to mess up the Dr Goodluck Jonathan-led government. During and after the campaign for 2011 national elections many politicians swore that they would make the country ungovernable for Jonathan if they did not win.

IT’S another season for serious politicking, horse-trading and carpet-crossing as the 2015 general elections draw near. Already, in Edo State, even when the gubernatorial election in the state is not due until sometime in the year of our Lord 2016, the political gladiators have sharpened and brought out their long knives to, as they say, share the loot!

ON Monday, May 19, 2014, newspapers and other news outlets across the country were awash with reports arising from a press statement signed by Chief Tony Anenih, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, BoT. Anenih, who has been a firm fixture in the upper echelons of the ruling PDP since the party’s early days, made a noteworthy departure from partisan politics by calling for national unity against the threat of insurgency.

THE nation of Israel has never been a stranger to wars from the Biblical times to this day. They, therefore, built and developed structures and systems that make them succeed and dominate their environment and situation. Israel has become self-sufficient in almost all sectors of their economy through the use of lessons from numerous war experiences.

IT is indeed necessary to look back and assess how our journey to democracy has been. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan has, in spite of numerous challenges, sustained the evolving democracy notwithstanding the many challenges. Nigeria, under the president, has turned out to be one of the most […]