IT is very easy as a pundit in Nigeria, nay Africa, to get carried away with the ceremonies of self-worth, and be largely overwhelmed by the need to preen, sometimes put on angst for the consumption of those hungry for choice morsels to assuage genuine anger.

FIRST, the site was the old Effurun Motor Park. It was very popular serving travellers from Warri, Agbarho, Ughelli, Ozoro, Oleh, Lagos, Ibadan and a few from the North and the South East. But unfortunately, it became subsumed by its own popularity as its handlers in the name of agboro rivalry made it a theatre of constant war of attrition.

On the converse, Dr. Fayemi and the Action Congress could do well to focus their attention on the 2011 House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Senatorial Elections. By their own action the governorship elections which would have held next year 2010 would now have to wait till 2013! This would give Governor Segun Oni more time to carry out more programmes that would endear him to the people of the state and make his unseating in a future election more difficult. In the final analysis these unending law suits would serve no useful purpose other than become perhaps the sword of Damocles

I QUESTION whether the necessary psychological conditions exist for us to address Nigeria’s problems or to implement the necessary solutions to them. This skepticism stems from the relative ease with which those in power restore the status quo after Nigerians have appeared to have awakened to the need for change.

THE philosophy of life that makes for winner takes all is not only antithetical to development; it is also not in favour of human progress. An intellectual inquiry into the stages of social and economic development in the Marxian interpretations and chronicles of social epochs shows that winner takes all conforms to the values operated in the primitive, slave and feudal social epochs which legacies were the oppressions, suppressions and economic deprivations of the human race.