The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, should start now thinking of a Christian successor to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, a Muslim, by religion, for 2015. Otherwise Christians should spend the next three and a half years, before the April 2015 elections, searching for another political party in which they will no longer be treated as second class members.

It can be safely assumed that the statement issued by General Azazi was cleared and approved by President Jonathan, Commander-In-Chief, C-I-C, of the Armed Forces of Nigeria.

“I want to see a situation where bank depositors can go to sleep with their two eyes closed”. Professor Chukwumah Soludo, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, August 2004. And for Soludo, security could only be guaranteed by creating banks which were “too big to fail. Like the author of the great ship, called Titanic whose builder boasted that “even God cannot sink it,” Soludo, as we had noted earlier, got his wish.

Too much inequality can harm the efficient operation of an economy…excessive inequality can have two perverse consequences: first, the very wealthy lobby for favours. Contracts and bailouts that distort markets; second growing inequality undermines the ability of the poorest to invest in their own education…These factors mean that high inequality can generate further high inequality and eventually poor economic growth.

“It is expected that based on the implementation of the Vision 20:2020 Economic Blueprint, which again goes to the root of resource management, the nation’s GDP should be growing at about 14 per cent per annum from 2010 to 2020, to realize this vision.