SINCE the campaign for the July 14 governorship election kicked off in Edo State, the activities of Edo youths have been consistently hallmarked by the intellectual need to place government within a comprehensive, practical and imaginative context.

THERE comes a time in the history of a people when no matter how much God shows His blessing of benevolence on them, there must be a cog on the wheels of progress.

THE Federal Government’s national transformation programme is expected to transform our power system, roads and railway systems; our education and health systems; unemployment, budget deficit and inflation; government’s high recurrent expenditure and so on.

On January 1, Nigerians woke up to find that petrol price had been increased to 140 naira from the 65 naira per litre, the reason being that government was paying N91 subsidy for every litre of fuel sold at the filling stations across the country and it was no longer economically sustainable to continue to do so.

THE almighty attitude of some governments in this country is amazing. It appears they feel that governments have absolute and unquestionable powers over those they govern. And their decision or pronouncements must always be final.