As usual, the largely symbolic and valedictory 11-day tour of 10 African states, by the US Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Clinton grabbed headlines and prime airtime on major media outlets across the continent. Mrs Clinton, ostensibly on her last tour of Africa as Secretary of State, delivered pulsating messages.

THE first time I met the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Alhaji M. D. Abubakar, as AIG Zone 2, I left his Onikan, Lagos, office without any iota of doubt about his ultimate ascension to the highest position in the Nigeria Police. Perhaps, I was divinely inspired to think that way.

Unlike the argument in the article written by Odimegwu Onwumere titled “Why T.A Orji will not thank God” which was published in The Sun newspaper of August 6, 2012, I strongly believe that Governor Orji has every reason in his life and that of his family and the people of Abia state to be always thankful to God for His infinite mercy, protection and guidance, especially with their liberation from the clutches of devilish syndrome called political godfatherism.

NIGERIANS should pay a very close attention to the on-going mediation efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan on the Jos crisis.

THE legislative list exclusive to the Federal Government in the 1999 Constitution is intolerably skewed in favour of the Federal Government. Nigeria is clearly a federal environment with three major ethnic groups, each with over 30 million people, populations that are singly more than half of countries of the world.