Only a few days away from Dior’s show during Paris Fashion Week, the 15 years career of Galliano as Chief Designer at Dior has abruptly come to an end. The French fashion house decided to cut all ties with John Galliano following the racist and anti-Semitic allegations at a couple in a Parisian brasserie. Dior already suspended Galliano last Friday

Recently, more than ever before, there has been a step-up propaganda on the advantages of breast-milk for babies. If, for a reason, you can’t breast-feed your baby, the-poor mite might he left with a future so disadvantaged you would wish rent-abreast-milk options are readily available on the market.

The political campaign season is upon us. That four-year cycle that pumps up adrenaline, and is the bull-pulpit equivalent of the thriller in Manila allows us to see not only much political theatre but also real blood on the sand. In this republic, as we strive to make it, to borrow the terms of another clime, a kinder and gentler society, the powerful animus of self-interested and deeply entrenched private hatreds will come to fore and indeed clash with the public interest.

Lately, I’d been prompted by readers to let them know of the love lives of my two close friends, Lilian and Ini. Well, they are fine and up to all sorts of mischief as usual. Only a few weeks ago, I called at Lilian’s and was surprised she wasn’t in one of her mumsy house dresses.

From the stables of Coast2Coast,Lagos, the publisher of the award-winning novels, Preganancy of the gods, and Treasure in the Winds by Odili Ujubuonu, Colourless Rainbow: Poetry of My Childhood by Senator Ihenyen, is now out