THIS piece is provoked not so much by any form of political or social affiliations with the Alei of Aleibiri, but a desire to deflate a balloon of fallacy which now surrounds Ebebi’s contested impeachment.

Although, the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), came with a counsel, it was a counsel brought after the fact. For President Goodluck Jonathan, there was an urgent need to do something.

GREAT news came from Anambra State on Monday, January17, 2011. The six month-old strike by the Academic and non-Academic Staff Unions in state universities in the South-East was finally called off at Anambra State University, Uli, paving way for the immediate resumption of academic activities.

WITH the conclusion of primary elections in most of the political parties across the country, it is becoming clear to the people who are the candidates of the political parties and what they will be contesting for in the coming general elections.

THE scoreboard between OBJ/Atiku and Yar’dua/Jonathan’s regimes is what was loudly presented to the PDP presidential primaries delegates at the Eagles Square on January 13, 14, 2011. It is heart-warming that Nigerian politicians are learning gradually and in no distant time may no more be taken for a ride. The Yar’Adua/Goodluck government may be far from the best we had hoped for but in comparison with those very sickening eight years of OBJ/Atiku, it is better. And those delegates said so with their votes.