I really wanted to have fun with the on-goingOtedola/Lawan saga this week. Pretty intriguing stuff this ‘mysterious case’ of the six hundred thousand dollar bribe. Everybody is sounding a little ‘off’.If this truly was a sting operation by security agencies and the money was marked as alleged by Mr Otedola, why wasn’t Honourable Farouk Lawan not arrested at the point of collection and the money retrieved by said agencies?

Two dates always cause me to be melancholy, Nigeria’s Independence and Democracy day. I reflect on how many years we have been in existence as a nation, and how many leaders we have had who have promised to lead us out of Egypt, and into a land flowing with milk and honey… .It is over 50 years; at the very least half of a human being’s lifetime on earth. If at this age, one is yet to chew strong meat with well formed teeth but continues to feed from a bottle then more is the pity.

Irate youths from Ikot Ansa community in Calabar Municipal Council of Cross River State penultimate week descended on one Edet Udoidung who allegedly invaded the home of a petty trader, Mrs. Glory Albert and slaughtered her and two of her children.

It was tears, wailing and weeping on Wednesday, when the people of Oghara, in the Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State, woke up to meet a sight of horror, they called a taboo in Urhobo Land, when a lorry, with no plate number, loaded to the brim with sharp sand, killed a pregnant woman, burst her belly and forced a twin foetus out of her womb. The accident also claimed the lives of two other men.

Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil missed training on Friday “as a precautionary measure” to prepare for Sunday’s Group B match against Denmark with a place in the Euro 2012 quarter-finals at stake.