The most difficult decision people sometimes have to make is not between “totally right” and “absolutely wrong.” However, the individual determines what is “right” or “wrong,” anybody who can be regarded as well-adjusted and who is not corrupted or under duress can generally decide to support the “right” and resist the “wrong.” The most difficult choices involve two “rights” or two “wrongs.”

In a true democracy, where the separation of powers between the Executive, the legislature and the judiciary is firmly entrenched, the President has no business interfering with the selection of the officers of the legislature.

In the war between the Nigeria Police and terrorists, whether Boko Haram or others, there is only one side to take for any patriotic citizen of this country. I am siding firmly with the police because the others aim to dominate us against our will; but not the police. And, you better join too; because this is a struggle for the soul of our country.

June 16, 2011, will again enter my short list of days to remember; it was a Thursday – a black Thursday for Nigeria. It was our own equivalent of the Al Qeda attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. To most Nigerians, it would only be remembered as the day the Police Headquarters in Abuja, the Louis Edet House, was bombed by Boko Haram muslim sect.

If your gen-set is off, it must have been turned off on account of overwork or because you can no longer afford the N170+ price of diesel – when you can find it. And if your wife is missing, have no fear. She has not abandoned the home. She is probably out there in search of elusive kerosene. Welcome to fresh air. We asked for it –including the NLC.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria has got caught in a web, inadvertently though, of its own making. Indeed, if it were not tragic, it would have been extremely hilarious. The highest court in the land recently gave a ruling which is not being obeyed and which cannot, and should not, be obeyed.

This column could easily have been titled I dey laugh too O! And, it would still have been apt. In fact, if all the reasons for my post-election laughter were to be written and analysed, it would require a whole booklet to do justice to it all. Since this piece is being read today, Sunday, May 29, 2011, the day President Goodluck Jonathan is being sworn in as the substantive Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Incorporated, it is perhaps the best day to recap a few issues which others have either habitually or inadvertently or deliberately forgotten.

And, for every politician who joins the Government of National Unity, GNU, or decamps true democracy is deferred. President Jonathan won the election, until the courts say otherwise. Every member of any of the opposition parties, elected or not, who seeks appointment under the foolish contraption called GNU should be regarded as an enemy of our fledgling democracy. Jonathan should not even consider them.

“My Fellow Countrymen”, behave as if history does not count for anything. It is no longer taught in the schools. And OBJ in one of his most destructive statements once said the teaching of social “sciences” should be discouraged in schools! That is ‘leadership’ for you!! I started reading Medicine, ended up graduating in Economics and now I wish I read History. For me, History and Philosophy are the most interesting of all subjects. What has that got to do with tsunamis and armed robbery? Plenty.

This article could just as well have been written under the title IS JOURNALISM A PROFESSION? Since our return to civil rule in 1999, the rapid turnover of editors, columnists and reporters, after every election points to the fact that in Nigeria, unlike most of the advanced countries, media work is seen by journalists as a mere stepping stone to something else – not a career in itself.

“Nigeria is not my country; I am not coming back to Nigeria”.
Lamide, 5 years old, two days after arriving in London on her first visit to the U.K.

At a time when most Nigerians were covering before the brutal regime of General Sani Abacha, a few brave souls were fighting, what to most of our fellow countrymen, a lost cause. To those brave souls, we owe this day. I was also busy on this page writing columns in defence of freedom, which one of my old friends, Ayo Olagunjoye, former Managing Director of National Bank, called suicidal.

One of the worst things the IOCs do to Nigeria is to turn ordinarily articulate Nigerians into enemies of their own countries. Their stock-in-trade is bribery and corruption, not only in Nigeria but worldwide. Tolu typifies the Nigerian working for an IOC – extremely well-paid and brainwashed to defend EVERYTHING the IOC does -right or wrong.

To some people in Nigeria, you hate someone when you tell the truth about him simply because they want those truths buried. I received so many text messages about my hatred for Jonathan instead of people disputing my facts that I now know why people fail exams.

My last born is now 19 years old. He has just told me he will vote, but wants to know who to vote for. I said I thought Jonathan is a wimp. Buhari is arrogant, aloof and ignorant of his rigid wicked selectivity. Ribadu is a deluded megalomaniac. He basks in the power and privilege of his lineage and former office. Okotie is as pretentious now in his pronouncement as he was as a singer! So, brother, how do we help our son pick a candidate to give his vote? Give him a name please, not a guideline. He needs a voice to follow at this age. You are it! He believes in you!”