The recent decamping by Zamfara state governor Alhaji Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi from ANPP to PDP have once again raised the dust on the morality of politicians switching parties, which most political analysts view as self-preservation and furthering of self interest in the political arena. The decamping bug seems to have sting the opposition ANPP more presently and there are speculations that the remaining ANPP governors may soon decamp to the ruling PDP.

"It will be nice for Nigerians for once to do well on what they are trained for. It is only in Nigeria that somebody who did religious studies will be working at NNPC as a manager for technology or you will find somebody in Nigeria who read theater arts will be a Director of Banking or a person who is a trained as a pharmacist will be made a minister for information as in the case for Dora Akunyili."

It is no more news that the Federal Government has orders the National Institute of Strategic Studies (NIPSS) to release the certificate of graduation of the institute to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu former boss of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). What is therefore the news is the alleged corrupt practices by Ribadu while he was the boss of the anti-corruption body.

In as much as I have some respect for Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello as a strong woman and being a close friend of her husband, it is not right for her to conduct herself appallingly in the place of worship. In addition, no right thinking Nigerian would appreciate the way she conducts herself in the public; more important though, as a member of a Distinguished Nigeria Senate. While her action should not come to anyone as a surprise, especially to those that have worked or crossed path with her before.

There is this African Riddle and I think it is most appropriate today and for the few words I have. The riddle asks, if you are in a dream and you encounter a Lion about to attack you, what do you do? ...Run, defend yourself, or attack the lion, certainly no and much easier, just wake up, WAKE UP!

Though I might have some reservations for whatever comes out of Orji Kalu's brain. In his latest but too elementary piece on Saturday Sun Newspaper, October 4, 2008, page 15, "A nation of Praise-singers, hagiographers", if he knows what that means anyway, I will agree with him that most praise-singers in Nigeria "come in diverse shades and very cunning and mischievous. Their target is to massage your ego and goad you into booboos designed to entrap you into their biddings." He could be speaking from the harvest of his experiences.

It is ironic how Nigerians ceaselessly barrage Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo for his policies during his administration. He is not even spared by his supposed ethnic group, against the norm. People would be wondering, even some of his friends in the North and East, why these negative comments about him after what they believed he contributed to Nigeria lately. Incidentally the three stooges of Buhari, Babangida, and Abubakar, are on the vanguard of defending late Abacha.

The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, humpty dumpty had a great fall readily comes to mind when one looks at the state of affairs in the nation. Nigeria, the land of the extraordinaire, a land where it all happens, a land that never ceases to amaze many, the land of Generals, from the good, the very good, sometimes the best, to also the bad, ugly and dirty, the land famed for the biggest fraud called PDP.

had a strong feeling of bereavement when the pictures of the Asagba of Asaba, Professor Chike Edozien appeared in some national dailies under obituary. It was after going through the story that I realized it was another professor of science, Chike Obi the renowned mathematician of international repute that died. My sentiment was borne out of the fact that the Asagba is one of detribalized traditional rulers in Nigeria who does not discriminate amongst the residents in his domain from diverse ethnic and religion backgrounds.

The essence of the Nigerian experience on June 12, 1993 and the subsequent annulment of the election by a cabal of military autocrats on 23 June same year, some fifteen years ago lies today essentially in whatever any group of our countrymen can do to instill the features of democratic practices and processes into the polity. Acceptably, the Nigerian peoples continue to expose the deceit that is inherent in the imposition of May 29 as the annual Democracy Day in the national programme. The same cabal and their likes that killed the expressed will of the people on June 12 are the creators of May 29 as the so-called Democracy Day.