History has recorded that the law, even in today’s Europe (before Brexit) has failed miserably to totally wipe out sleeping under bridges, begging in the streets and stealing bread. Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, emperor of most of Europe, at one time, once scornfully called the British “a nation of shopkeepers”. If a modern day Napoleon were to come to Nigeria and travel all our thirty-six states as well as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, he could, with irrefutable justification describe Nigeria as a nation of street traders.

The General Overseer of the Auchi, Edo State-based Omega Fire Ministries International (OFM), Apostle Johnson Suleman, has admonished Nigerians and their leaders to shed the toga of pride if the nation must move forward in truth and virtue even as he hinted on plans by “men of God to” intercede on behalf of the nation in search of peace and economic progress.

I have written extensively about the same disgraceful display of thuggery of our honourable lawmakers’ men and women, but, they are anything but honourable. Yes, I said it. But there are, a tiny minority who are honourable but the majority have tarred the few with the same brush.

Miss Blessing Douglas is a 24-year-old international and comparative politics graduate of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa State. She is the founder of Kintsukuroi Foundation, a non-governmental organisation set up with a vision to rescue children between ages 10-24, especially the ones from broken homes, orphans, vulnerable and underprivileged caught in self- victimization, depression, abuse, neglect and all other forms of mental illnesses or disorders.

The on-going stress in the banking industry may have compounded the weakened capacity of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, to deliver on its mandate to the Nigerian banking industry.

Sam Omatseye’s piece in the Nation, “The Ghost of Biafra,” this past week adds to the growing discussion on the inevitable impact of the new secessionist movement in important ways. The kernel of that column is that Nigeria as a nation runs in vain from its obligation to effect closure on the Biafran experience. Omatseye, of course skirts certain issues, and fudges a few, including the important question he raises: “how could a people knowing that they did not have the arms still plunge to war against an overwhelming armed opponent?”

The crisis that has rocked Nigeria’s football since the election of 2014 seems to be gravitating into a hydra of sort. Following the aborted congress which threw up Chris Giwa as President of the Nigeria Football Federation and the counter congress in Warri under which Amaju Pinnick became the FIFA-recongnised NFF president, a circus show has been going on.

—Onuesoke Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and one-time Delta State governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, says he foresees his party’s candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, winning the forthcoming Edo State governorship election.

Voluptuous Yoruba actress, Tonia Ferrari may soon have the bragging right to rub shoulders with the big actresses in the industry if all goes her way next week at the City People Award. The actress, who has been nominated in the ‘Revelation of the Year’ category of the award stands a good chance of clinching the award which has other nominees like Jumoke Odetola, Akin Kolapo Richie, Jomiloju Olumide, Maryam Akanke, Tomiwa Alajogun and Tonia Ferrari.

Fans gossip about their favourite superstars and they find news about their private lives interesting. Belinda Effah, the award-winning star of Apaye says that though she is in the public eye, she wants to keep her private life away from public glare.