NIGERIANS are quite aware that civil servants both at the state and federal level have over the years remained a stumbling block to the smooth running of government.

IT is challenging for me to write about my father, Hilary Nmerengwa Isiguzo, in the past. It is more frustrating still not feeling that he is dead. I returned to the house after his passing, at 82, expecting a surge of emotions that would have pressed the message home – there was none.

In January 2008, Vanguard published my review article on the late Wangari Maathai’s “Unbowed: A memoir”. I am reproducing it below as a tribute to the late Nobel Peace Laureate.

Only two political parties are hopeful of winning the 2012 governorship election in Edo State: The ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. And since it is now clear that ACN is sticking to the comrade governor, it is left for the PDP, as the main opposition party, to provide the state with an alternative whose antecedents do not fall short of the peoples expectation come 2012.

In Nigeria, the battle to accord its citizens full access to healthcare is being prosecuted by the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).