The weighty, scandalous and damaging revelations by Wikileaks reports in the last two weeks about a possible conspiracy between some highranking judicial officers and highlyplaced government officials to subvert justice in Nigeria elicit many compelling questions that should not be left answered.

FOR weeks now, the nation has been held spell-bound by the revelations contained in US diplomatic cables published on the Wikileaks website to the effect that former President Olusegun Obasanjo actually had plans to sack the then Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu for his refusal to cancel the scheduled 2007 general elections and hand the president an opportunity to elongate his tenure.

One of the intriguing cables leaked by WikiLeaks on Uganda is where NRM Eastern Region Vice Chairman Mike Mukula vents his frustration about his party to US ambassador Jerry Lanier. In a 2009 diplomatic cable Mukula reportedly told the American diplomat that President Yoweri Museveni was grooming his son, Lt. Col. Muhoozi Kainerugaba to succeed him, favouring Banyankole politically, militarily and economically, and that he, Mukula, wants to become president in 2016.

Nigeria's other anti-corruption bodies, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) have failed to compliment the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Human Rights Watch has said in a 64 page analysis chronicling EFCC's performance in its almost nine years of existence.

Shell Petroleum Company may well be regarded as one of the international oil giants that has dominated the oil exploration in Nigerian in every way. In terms of output per production and share of oil production as well as oil spillage and environmental disaster, the giant Shell has surely stood out among its peers.