Nigeria’s independence and democracy are testaments that testify to the victory of the tenacious grimly persistent and unfaltering founding fathers of our nation. The tales of the travails of Anthony Enahoro, Sultan Bello, Obafemi Awolowo and M.K.O. Abiola still remain faultlessly exemplary in Africa’s quest for citizen-focused governance. However, with Nigeria’s current torrent of shames, it becomes reasonable to reconsider the rationale

After the four most terrible years that Abia State has ever seen, the idiotic Governor of Abia State, TA Orji, has now jumped from PPA to APGA. The jump wasn't necessitated by any calculated desire to do better. It wasn't necessitated by a desire to surround himself with better people. He isn't switching because, he feels remorseful for converting Abia into a lawless wasteland.

TA Orji jumped because, his original party, the PPA, were about to dump him, so what we have here is a game for political survival.

Contrary to reports that the Federal Government presented a budget of ten billion naira (N10billion) for approval by the National Assembly for its Nigeria @ 50 celebrations, figures emerging from the National Assembly shows that the actual budget figure is in excess of N16 billion (precisely N16,372,217, 977). An analysis by the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), of the Supplementary Appropriation Bill 2010, submitted by the

Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu raising Gov. Theodore Orji hand at the Reception of the Governor into the All Progressives Grand Alliance. At the occassion Gov. Orji was issued his APGA membership card in the presence of his wife and Chief Victor Umeh, the Cairman of APGA. 

If there have been appointments which President Goodluck Jonathan has made based purely on merit and a deep concern for Nigeria’s future,  they are the choice of Attahiru Jega as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the choice of Bart Nnaji as the Special Presidential Adviser on Power. Though appointed at different times, both professors were interestingly sworn in on the same occasion on July 1,

Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu is expected to lead the national leadership of the party including the only APGA governor, Mr Peter Obi of Anambra State, National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, as well as other bigwigs of the party to welcome Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji into the party at a public declaration at Umuahia Township Stadium Friday June 2, 2010.

The former Governor of the Nigeria Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has said that the Vision 20: 2020 will end up a huge joke because the economy is currently hanging on the life support of a fragile and temporary oil boom without the prerequisite economic investments to support the vision.

 “Unless the economy is growing at the rate of about 15% per annum (more than twice the current rate)” the Vision 20:2020 dream will remain a mirage.

Professor Soludo made the declaration at the the Nigeria@50 Summit that took place at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, in Park Lane, London from Monday June 28 - 29 2010. 

Several issues are raised in what now appears to be veiled jabs between the Babangida camp and the presidency. One, the camp of Jonathan has been apparently responding to the ‘Babangida challenge’. It is possible that recent reports that the federal government has set up a committee to review the Okigbo Report, (which allegedly recommended that Babangida should be prosecuted for purportedly mismanaging $12.4 billion) is part of the weapons in the armoury of the President’s camp

In a well written article published by Elombah.com a writer Law Mefor asks the question Can Attahiru Jega Make the difference Mefor answers the question tongue in cheek but says that if Mr. Jega took some steps he could make a difference? The tongue in cheek was expressed by Mefor when he looked back at Mr. Jega’s close association with Mr. Iwu and the positions he took in the Uwais’s Commission and Report. Mefor’s answer

Unlike what most farmers cherish because of its good work on the soil and subsequent large production of crops,rainy season is dreaded by motorists because of the bad shape it gives our roads and the direct effect of the bad roads on their vehicles,due to poor maintainance or inexpert construction of these roads.Unfortunately,rain,an inexorable natural phenomenon and gift from God seems to be causing more harm than good to