Are journalists in Ogun tate not worthy of appointments in the government of their state? Why is it that successive occupants of Igbein Hill Government House since 1999 (that was when I began active journalism in the State) have not been looking their ways for engagement, especially as media and information managers?

The majesty of the moment is that the Governor epitomises a fresh faith in the old dream of the creation of Akwa Ibom.

Gus was exhibiting a sense of injured pride. He felt like a man who had accomplished his mission well and acquitted himself diligently and elegantly, and then, just in the last step and moment, was now being forced to experience an embarrassment that was totally avoidable.

I submit that the power to appoint or recommend for appointment ju dicial officers vested in NJC by Section 158[1] of the Constitution and Paragraph 21[a] and [g] of the Third Schedule to the Constitution includes the power to remove or suspend such judicial officers: See Section 11[1][b] of the Interpretation Act, which provides: When an enactment confers a power to appoint a person either to an office or to exercise any functions, whether for a specified period or not, the power includes

It may sound like a fairy tale but some decades ago, stories were told about school children being slammed with all manner of punishment for speaking Igbo language in the classroom!