OGOJA area is one of the last provinces in Nigeria that has not become a state. Whatever the reasons no one is sure. Most under-developed areas of the country that have become states have seen fast and significant infrastructure, economic, and political development overnight.

One of my most favourite English idioms right from my primary school days is the one that says that “A bad workman quarrels with his tools”.

Who says governance is a tea party. It is not and can never be because of the numerous challenges associated with it, which demands clear understanding of it, the ability to map out policies and programmes that will tackle the challenges without minding whose ox is gored.

IT would have taken more than a miracle for the national honours to be awarded without criticisms. What weakens present criticisms is that the proponents pretend the standards for the awards are new or that the high number of awards is necessarily an abuse.

THE judgment of the International Court of Justice, which purported to award the Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroun, is to all intents and purposes outrageous, blatantly unjust and patently unsupportable.