When Amina walked into her mother-in-law’s living room to pick up the three children she was baby-sitting, she found the four of them engrossed in the film they were watching on the television. Thinking it was yet another home video, she was appalled to discover the movie was soft-porn! She shrieked in protest that things like that shouldn’t be shown to the kids who were all under 14 years. The poor mites were watching the film with embarrassed curiosity.

What most of us are guilty of is having that special article stashed away to be happily worn or used as an amulet at the right occasion. In spite of the fact that we regret doing that most of the time, our hoarding instinct prevents us from learning from the consequences of always saving the best for last. “Why is that beautiful bottle of perfume sitting almost untouched on my dressing table?” asked Kemi, a self-confessed ‘hoarder’ who was always stashing things away like a squirrel.

SOUTH West governors yesterday described the    statement credited to the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), asking all Fulani residing in Southern parts of the country to return to the north  as most unfortunate, divisive and retrogressive.

No sooner had Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman of Kwara state won the last gubernatorial election which was clinically achieved by the “O to ge” political movement, the governor recruited members from across all the wards in the sixteen local governments of the state to form a political movement called “Ise Ya”, which means ‘work has started’ with the sole mandate of spreading the good news about his administration everywhere.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, for sure, knows how to ruffle feathers and he struck devastatingly, last week,   when   he stated that he learned   to combat political godfathers from his former governor of the state, his erstwhile boss and political mentor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, currently the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC.