MAN’S sense of wonder about the things in and outside of him sharpened his curiosity to know not only the sense of things but the sense of senses in general, and the meaning of meanings in particular.

THE 2011 general election is in top gear and serious contenders have signified their interests to vie for the highest position in the land next year. Just like previous elections, it appears the coming election is being run on trivial issues and not on issues that border on the general wellbeing of the people.

THE much-anticipated Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] presidential primary elections in Nigeria have come and gone, leaving the victorious singing victory songs and the vanquished to rue their fate. That the PDP presidential primary elections were a bitterly fought and acrimonious political battle is to say the least. It succeeded in splitting the ruling party in Nigeria down the middle.

IMAGINE how many Venezuelans, Algerians and Angolans would drown in laughter, should their presidents tell them that a major achievement of the regime, for which it seek new mandate is ensuring a uniform price of petroleum products throughout the country.

In the past weeks, primary elections and voter registration have dominated national discourse. Not even the assassinations in Borno State that saw the felling of the All Nigeria Peoples’ Party, ANPP, gubernatorial candidate, Fanami Gubio, and six others; plus the seemingly intractable Jos impasse could relegate electioneering to the background.