One of the exasperating and sometimes tragic aspects of situations that are patently intractable is their tendency to develop unpredictable ramifications.

It was described as the first of briefings by the President, and he handled it as to the manner born. Of course, it was not really his very first performance of that kind; though he has never appeared in the ranks of the reticent, yet President Goodluck Jonathan did not appear too eager to formally address the nation extensively or comprehensively on several pressing issues of the moment.

Slipped in the bath, knocked my head against a wall, and passed out. When I regained consciousness, it seemed a hundred days had passed.

The recent article by Benson Idonije – who writes in the Guardian — on music in the history of Nigerian radio, brought back memories of the man who may be said to have played the leading role in that development.

Have you ever stopped to really dig deep into the reason for General Ibrahim Babangida’s promotion of General Olusegun Obasanjo’s ever-present desire to rule Nigeria, immediately after OBJ’s incarceration at the hands of General Sani Abacha? It all seemed so clean and altruistic—on the outside, that is.

The Governor of Bauchi State, Issa Yuguda, has offered his services as the manager for the electioneering campaign of Babatunde Fashola, should the Lagos State Governor decide to present himself for the high office of the president in future.

The idea of a change in the length of the tenure of the President, the Governors and the respective Legislature has been mooted on various occasions in the past.

Me, I am frightened. It was reported, at first, that the vehicle which carried a live bomb into the National Headquarters of the Nigeria Police, was driven by a man who was programmed, and content, to die in the explosion. Then the statement was retracted.

It is an old English adage that everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything bout it. That is not true. Since the Wright brothers pointed the way to the stars, around the beginning of the second decade in the last century, air travel, at least, has made the weather a compulsory topic in many ways.

They flitted like dragon-flies across the seas but packed the sting of a wasp. They were colourful, adventurous and ruthless.

Communication is the most distinctive difference between the nature of man and that of animals. It truly separates human beings from other creatures. It is ideally based on a two-way system in which more than one party express their opinion or authority.