LAST week, I went to a funeral in Yenagoa – my first visit to the state capital of Bayelsa for ages. And I spotted a huge poster that really moved me. It had a full-length photograph of President Jonathan on it. And he was striding forward purposefully and smiling broadly like someone who feels on top of the world.

LAST Monday, Daily Trust, a newspaper that is circulated nationally but regarded as “Northern”, published a report titled “Niger Delta Gets 86 percent of FG Projects”.

LAST week, I told you about a Benue Art exhibition reception I attended in Washington while I was visiting America a couple of weeks ago.

I RECENTLY visited the United States and was invited to the official opening of an impressive, world-class Benue Culture Exhibition in Washington DC.

WHEN I was a pupil at various Catholic convent schools in the UK, I encountered a small handful of nasty, twisted females who derived pleasure from launching physical and psychological attacks on their weaker juniors and contemporaries.

I have, in this column, recently complained about the unsatisfactory manner in which the government is responding to the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report about the devastating effects of oil production activities in Ogoniland.

LAST week, I wrote about the recent United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report. It was based on a scientific study – the most detailed to ever be conducted in the Niger Delta region; and it accused Shell and the Nigerian government of failing to protect my Ogoni homeland from chronic pollution.

THE recent United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report – which accused Shell and the government of failing to protect my Ogoni homeland from chronic pollution – has generated bitterness as well as satisfaction.

CAN someone please explain to me why so many intelligent and seemingly rational Nigerian Christians and Muslims are such ardent believers in juju or “jazz”?!

NEWCOMERS to this country often ask me why most Nigerians are so slavishly willing to endlessly, cheerfully and calmly tolerate bad situations that would trigger off riots or other forms of mass protest in other parts of the world.