FOR the first time in years, Nigeria’s Niger Delta seems to be looking up. Large numbers of the region’s insurgents who had been sabotaging petroleum production and fighting government forces in a campaign for a greater share of oil revenues, have accepted President Umaru Yar’Adua’s offer of amnesty.

‘ In any case what are the democratic credentials of Powell? That he is serving in a government that rigged the American elections? ….Colin Powell is trying to discharge his duties as a house negro’

THERE is one thing one cannot take away from Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu , Ezeigbo Gburugburu – his passion for his people and his deep-rooted concern for their well-being. One thing we have come to associate with Ojukwu is his ability to speak for his people whenever he perceives danger lurking against them.

When on November 1, 2007, the House of Representatives elected Dimeji Bankole as its speaker, following a protracted wrangling for the enthr-onement of accoun-tability, good governance and integrity of the House, many expected a radical departure from a hitherto docile House. But not many would have expected the new Speaker to thread where even the angels tremble in the Nigeria power equation.

The bitterness and hatred with which Owei Lakemfa wrote his piece (titled “Fani-Kayode: Tales His Father Told Him,” The Vanguard Newspaper, Nov 25th 2009) about Chief Femi Fani- Kayode and his late and highly respected father, the Balogun of Ife, Chief R.A Fani- Kayode Q.C., S.A.N, C.O.N clearly reveals the fact that he cannot be regarded as an impartial columnist who seeks to establish the truth but rather he can be seen more in the light of a subjective and venom- filled commentator who is on a hatchet job for unseen forces.