Journalists say a thing they know isn’t true in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough, it will be true —Julien Benda, 1857-1952

CASE ONE: A young lady was in tears when she couldn’t withdraw a desperately needed twenty thousand naira with her ATM card. The till said she had only one thousand naira left in her account.

AN independent country is largely self-reliant and does not need foreign aid. Notwithstanding her incredible wealth, Nigeria receives a lot of aid regularly from the West.

A COUNTRY would not be a country if it was not anchored on laws. But a country can be described as one without laws where it has laws that are not enforced or that are enforced more in the breach than the observance.

SOMEBODY brought up the subject of another Nigerian living in Baltimore who had committed suicide despite living what seemed to be a beautiful existence.

*It’s a paper tiger- Boyloaf *Ignore them-Tompolo *Give peace a chance-JTF By Emma Amaize, George Onah and Samuel Oyadongha The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, is drawing flak from its former commanders who recently gave up arms, after its threat, on Friday, to resume attacks on oil installations in the country. […]

MY attempt this week is to bring some attention to the subject of the Asaba massacres, one of the haunting ghosts of Nigeria’s last civil war. I pay particular tribute to Emma Okocha – Onye Amuma Cable – author of Blood on the Niger, the chilling account of the Asaba massacres of October 7, 1967.

Dr. Magnus Kpakol, National Co-ordinator of the National Poverty Eradication Programme needs no introduction. Before he became the arrow head of NAPEP, he was the Chief Economic Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Before that appointment, Dr. Kpakol was a Professor of Economics at the Dallas University, USA, and an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. He has also served as the Principal Consultant to VIJON International, a business and management consulting firm in Carrolton, Texas, USA.

One of Oprah Winfrey’s show once devoted a whole episode to women often wearing the wrong size bra and ruining their otherwise lovely figure. You’re probably wearing the wrong size bra if you notice any of the following problems!
You see deep strap imprints on your skin when you take off a bra; your chest looks saggy under clothes; you pull up your bra straps or tighten them; you feel your bra ride up in the back; your breasts spill over the cups.

I am confused. What exactly is the difference between formal, semiformal and informal dress? I need some guidelines.