The settlement perched on the Northwest of the Federal Capital Territory was an attraction to me mainly because of the melodious intonation of the name of the town. It was especially captivating hearing those bus drivers in Abuja hailing passengers and shouting Mpape, Mpape, Mpape.

SENATOR Arthur Nzeribe it appears has not lost his amazing instinct to stand out for good or for bad. It is no surprise that he earned for himself the epithet of ‘the maverick’ one in the nation’s political landscape.

Sunday’s press statement by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN demanding the resignation of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur from his position as the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was characteristic of the caustic press releases from the party targeted at the PDP.

The eye-catching picture of a bevy of lovely women flocking around the new Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Aloma Mukhtar published on the cover of this newspaper yesterday was of great concern.

So Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as Vice-President had a quarrel with his then boss, President Umaru Yar‘Adua? Well, so it now seems. Even though not your typical fight, but it was still a fight or a squabble on principles.

WHen 11,000 air traffic controllers in the United States initiated a strike action sometime in 1981 it was a development that remarkably united the majority of Americans against the air traffic controllers who were already among the highest earning in the country at that time.

Praying for those in authority is one of the basic injunctions of the Christian Faith. The early Christian missionary, Paul who was originally from Tarsus in a letter to one of his close aides, Timothy wrote that prayers should be made for all men and then for “kings, and for all that are in authority.”

Perhaps General Muhammadu Buhari has finally become a politician as some are now suggesting. After all, one trait of the political class in these shores is their slipperiness, lack of principles and a clear deficit in principles.

Only few persons have had the effrontery to raise the issue of corruption in the National Assembly as Ms Arummah Oteh, the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC has done in the last few days. One man who also did so was Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.

THAT the killing of two European hostages, Italian Franco Lamolinara and Briton Christopher McManus during a failed rescue mission in Sokoto would spark a diplomatic row is not surprising. The Italian authorities are miffed that the British authorities knew of and indeed participated in the failed rescue mission without telling the authorities in Rome.

WITH an intimidating physical frame and a resonating baritone voice it was not difficult for Senator Isa Oyofo to command an intimidating presence in the Senate between 1999 and 2007. The mystique around him would only have deepened with his ascension in that period to the Spiritual Leadership of the Grail Message sect in Nigeria.

WITH an intimidating physical frame and a resonating baritone voice it was not difficult for Senator Isa Oyofo to command an intimidating presence in the Senate between 1999 and 2007. The mystique around him would only have deepened with his ascension in that period to the Spiritual Leadership of the Grail Message sect in Nigeria.

EIGHT days to the interment of late Elder statesman and Leader of defunct Biafran Republic, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, discordant tunes are trailing the selection of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike as his successor.

Members of the opposition who fret about what they claim to be the poor vocal articulation of the President would have been clearly shamed last Friday. At the formal presentation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP gubernatorial candidate for Bayelsa State, in Yenogoa that day, President Goodluck Jonathan was at his oratorical best.

NOW if anyone needs a reminder of the problems that have stymied the nation’s development he or she, only need seek an interaction with the House of Representatives Committee on Power.