Information is power. This is true. Information acting alone cannot create anything. But there is nothing that can be produced without information. The vast various power of information exists not only in developed countries but also in Africa too.

On November 16, 2010, Mr. Steve Oronsaye’s appointment as Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, HOCSF, came to an end having reached the mandatory retirement age of 60 years.  He was appointed into the office by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on June 12, 2009. 

If the Nigeria gas industry is to meet the expectations of its home and international customers, more purposeful actions are expected from its operators. If properly handled, Nigeria gas industry is capable of generating more income than oil. Though no detail facts are available from the vital sector of our economy, more efforts are required, if we are adequately to meet domestic and international requirements after over half a century years of operation.

Some of the military leaders who approved the 1999 constitution did so with the full intention of being its major beneficiaries. That is why among them are the most avid or desperate supporters of zoning. To achieve political stability, peace and progress in Nigeria, there are of course a number of options and on a sliding scale zoning is far from the top.  If anything, it is too simplistic and is of no obvious advantage for the short or long term interests of the country.

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All the noise about zoning is really distressing. For me, the most critically important issue in the polity is the quality of leadership, and I do not see how zoning relates to that.

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The ongoing constitutional amendment, particularly the proposed amendment to section 180 (2) and the insertion of a new paragraph ‘c’ has ruffled the legal beehive with the provision that “in the determination of the four-year term, where a re-run election has taken place and the person earlier sworn-in wins the re-run, the time spent in the office before the date the election was annulled shall be taken into account.

All the noise about zoning is really distressing. For me, by far the most critically important issue in the polity is quality of leadership, and I do not see how zoning relates to that. I have to say also that unfortunately the press is not helping matters by giving so much prominence to a subject that is being advocated by failed ideologues and intellectual midgets who constitute the remnants of Nigeria's failed power elite who are clutching at the zoning straw, only as a means of remaining relevant politically. These people are intellectually lazy.