In his time_honoured characterization of successful leaders, Niccolo Machiavelli, author of the famous political treatise, The Prince said “While fate and fortune determine one half of our lives, the other half, will depend on us.”

WHEN her time came, she went quietly into the good night. For the late Elder (Mrs.) Comfort Imoke (Nee Imuokhuede), there was no raging against the going out of the light. She had completed her course on earth, as it were.

AS a proud Igbo man, I profess dismay at the columnist Uche Ezechukwu who in the Sun of October 25 and November 1, 2010 took his time to calumniate Ambassador Raph Uwechue, the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. This is because I have always had a lot of respect for Mr. Ezechukwu and his journalism.

BY the mid 20th Century, racial discrimination in the United States of America remained entrenched and seemed intractable. But just a little after the turn of the same century, racism in America had regressed to the point of permitting the election of a Black man as the president.

HOWEVER, while he is spending money, luring PDP members to join the ACN more ACN members, tired of Oshiomhole’s dictatorial tendencies, are joining the PDP on daily basis because they have realised that there is a greater measure of internal democracy in the PDP.