IBB registers himself to me as someone who loves power and the appurtenances of power and so cannot afford to distance himself from power – and cannot have enough doing as a “kingmaker”. He must always be politically relevant His real intention about power was manifested when against the decision of the Supreme Military Council, he adopted the title of President and eased out his critic, General Domkat Bali.

Whatever it is that is in human or spirit form that has been confusing our leaders, please I pray you with all that you hold sacred, I pray you with bent knees, I pray you with drooped head, I bow and tremble in total supplication to spare our President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. This is the first time in the history of our great nation that a gentleman from the oil-producing little town of Otueke in Bayelsa State by divine providence is in Aso Rock.

ON Thursday April 21, 2010, the Edo State Government under the leadership of the Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole organised a rally in collaboration with Labour and the civil society in support of electoral reform in Nigeria around the philosophy of ‘One Man, One Vote’.

STANLEY MACEBUH was, in the finest sense of the expression, an engaging intellectual. His effortless command of the English language, derived in part, I suspect, from his sound grounding in the classics. That background imbued him with a brevity of style that was outstandingly refreshing.

I FIRST met Stanley Macebuh in 1966. He had just graduated from Ibadan, and had come back to King’s College, his alma mater, to teach. He taught sixth form English and I had the privilege and in retrospect, the exceeding luck of being one of his students. My memory of that period is, understandably, hazy now.