Ottawa is in Canada and Canada is a leading commonwealth country just as Nigeria. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan recently presented letters of credence to a fresh team of envoys and easily, the most visible in that team is Chief Ojo Maduekwe, CFR, eloquent and well read Lawyer, astute politician, skilled administrator, public affairs analyst, great orator and thinker extraordinary.

THE Nigerian aviation law prohibits the registration and operation of aircrafts more than 22 years old for ferrying air passengers. That airline companies in Nigeria continue to register and operate planes older than 22 years is an indictment of the Ministry of Aviation and NCAA.

On Thursday, June 14, 2012, the Independent Television, ITV, Benin aired two interactive political discussion segments on its flagship breakfast programme, “This Morning on ITV”. The two sections had the same focus of the definition of true governance and people-oriented development of Edo State.

I HAD the opportunity to read the piece titled, “Anambra: The limits of propaganda”, written by Mr. Chudi Offodile, a politician of the PDP stock, though a legal practitioner by training, from Anambra State. I feel constrained, having been involved in the government of His Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi, Governor of Anambra State, from its inception, to correct some of the fallacies contained in the write-up of Mr. Offodile.

Of course, repositioning them will not be easy, due to the poor state of our public service as a whole! It will involve restructuring each agency to be used, and streamlining the regulatory environment of the sector concerned.