THE death of former President Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has since opened a new vista in the scramble for presidential power.

IT is almost impossible to ply the Benin-Sagamu highway and not end up with a feeling of regret and bitterness at how much seriousness the government attaches to this vital project, and by implication the welfare of its citizens.

IT is utterly amazing that a man who had been in a political lacuna for a sustained period of time was thrown a political lifeline and climbs unexpectedly back to a great height through a particularly strong ladder literally, only to dramatically jettison the same resilient ladder he used in getting back to the top as not being fit for that purpose, within just a few months of exploiting the same ladder.

BUT for a formal declaration, the South-East zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU], is locked in a battle with the Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo state governments which own the five state universities where ASUU members have refused to teach for the past four months.

ONCE I read the article entitled “Uwechue’s sad swan song (1)” on the back page of the Sun of Monday October 25, 2010, I decided on examining the question it addressed. Upon reading the second half of the piece a week later, it became obvious to me that Uche Ezechukwu, the author, had needlessly degraded and devalued the integrity and cathedral majesty that his weekly Capital Matters column should normally commands.