Nigeria’s petrol subsidy is akin to the symbolic poetry in the spirit child Abiku that is a wanderer who dies and returns again and again to plague the people. The groundswell of public opinion has again started in Nigeria on subsidy for imported petroleum products. It has a steady drumbeat of accusations that would never go away because it appears to be resident in a realm that may not be understood. Judging from the trade blames and tirades among the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC as operators, DAPPMAN and MOMAN as marketers it was obvious something was again amiss which Nigerians could not fathom.

A Kano based pro-democracy organization, The Northern Agenda (TNA), has urged the National Assembly to desist from its high handedness in the way and manner they handle budget issues.

The Senator representing Bayelsa east, Senator Ben Murray Bruce and the Governor of Kaduna state Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai have locked horns over who should be given credit for the Abuja-Kaduna railway where recently President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned ten new coaches and two locomotives.

It appears, actress Moyo Lawal is still under pressure to marry as fast as she could possibly make it happen. There seems to be some desperation about it as the curvy diva  spilled it out in her birthday message which was on New Year day.

MUCH as it is still an accepted standard here in Nigeria that the ultimate goal of both male and female in a stable relationship is marriage; lots of people are now wary of it. Quite a number have refused to even think of it either because they’d had a nasty marital experience or because they got jilted. Only one of the people I talked to refused to get married because he didn’t want it.