Editorials (Nigeria) Monday, July 21, 2008

Power Sector Reforms Report Says Nothing!

THE 17-member Power Sector Reform Committee the President inaugurated on September 7, 2007 has submitted an important report that contains nothing new.Under, the heading GENERAL, the Committee made the following observations, "The power sector requires urgent government intervention to save it from collapse..." [VANGUARD]

Politicians and death threats

AFTER what looks like a break from a vicious past, there are indications that the nation could return to this barbaric era, going by the recent outcries by some political office holders that assassins were after their lives. [NIGERIAN TRIBUNE]

Delayed election appeals

FEW issues have as much potential in defining a country as the state of its justice system. While conflicts and disagreements are inevitable in human transactions, the hallmark of law and order derives from a society's capacity to resolve such conflicts speedily and justly. [GUARDIAN]

Tinubu and Yoruba leadership

We have read and heard of many views on the issue of Yoruba leadership and the vacuum created after the demise of our former leader Senator Abraham Adesanya. If we may deduce from the various opinions of some of our leaders who have spoken on the subject matter, we will see that they have been ambiguous in their statements on who actually should take the mantle of leadership of the virile and politically conscious race. [DAILY SUN]