In Anambra, politics is a sublime art. It is a jigsaw puzzle set on a nebulous terrain. It is dance whose steps are often taught by the spirits.

Mbaise clan made up of three local government areas of Aboh, Ahiazu and Ezinihitte is an integral and thickly populated part of Imo State.

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan may not celebrate birth day because of the heavy burden of governing a state like Delta. If he does, it gives his horde of critics the opportunity to feast like vultures of opportunism; if he does not celebrate, his core political associates may be offended.

SHAKESPEARE in one of his novels, described death as a necessary end which will come when it will come. There is no doubt that dying is a sad reality but one thing which is always noticed is the ill-feeling and very ugly mood such occasions bring to those affected.

IN his media chat with a team of journalists in September this year, President Goodluck Jonathan declared his government’s commitment to end the logjam with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, by effecting the changes demanded by the lecturers. This followed an earlier directive to the Federal Government’s negotiating committees, the Universities Needs Implementation Committee and the Earned Allowances Committee, to take immediate action to end the ASUU strike.