Nigeria’s most children-friendly telecommunications company, Etisalat, at the weekend returned with the episode three of the ongoing season two of the popular Children TV series, Kids Say the Darndest Things.

In Nigeria, we would have said the national polls on the U.S. Presidential Elections have gone ga-ga. Well, nothing to do with Lady Gaga. But for simplicity sake, let’s just say the polls have gone wild. Check this out: As at Wednesday, the NBC News poll had Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump 48-42 and Reuters poll 40-38. But CNN poll had Trump leading Hillary 49-48 while the LA Times poll had them dead even at 44. Note that this is mainly in a two-way race between Clinton and Trump.

Next week, Muslims all over the world, celebrate one of their major annual festivals, the Eid-el-Kabir which commemorates the great faith of Ibrahim who willingly submitted himself to the commandment of God to offer his son as a sacrifice to God. Christians also subscribe to this account of the great faith of Ibrahim, who is Abraham to them. It is one of several points of convergence between Christianity and Islam, the two main religions in our country.

President Muhammadu Buhari may be thumping his chest in self adulation over his much cherished anti-corruption war, but the crusade may not be more than a mere conceptual variable given the evidence that corrupt practices and officials are still very active under his watch. Officials working under Buhari, are aware that he abhors corrupt tendencies like a plague and would, therefore, not hesitate to wield the big stick against anyone who indulges in graft or any semblance of fraud.

The Niger Delta militants were not cowards. They operated clandestinely but didn’t need masks. The morality of their enterprise before amnesty was their pride. But the Avengers are ghosts. Troubled by the glare of the unrighteousness of their present endeavor , they took to the protective shield of anonymity . Anonymity, paints the picture of cowardice.