Right now all the moral values and traditional and cultural values, which used to guide our individual and social behaviour are in danger of disappearing

Another reader pointed out to me that Princess Alexandra visit during the 1960 Independence ceremony was not, as I alluded in my earlier piece, confined to the Southern parts of country alone

WHEN Prince Charles came visiting last week, it was an opportunity once more for the country to put forward our prominent royal fathers as a welcome party for the heir-apparent to the British throne.

AT some intervals,  it is necessary to pause to hear the readers’ comments to pieces that have appeared on this page. In my view, readers’ comments must be heard so long as they are expressed within the ambits of civilised discourse. Today is one of those moments. Please read on:

MANY times on this page, I had decried the incessant killings prevalent in many parts of the North. In the past few days, Jos and Kaduna have flared up in the same persistent manner and around the same axes. In a piece I ran on this page on  July 10, 2018, titled  Getting peace back to Jos, I referred to the sense of dread and foreboding that normally engulfed me whenever I have to traverse Jos in the last many years, particularly from Riyom side.

PENULTIMATE Saturday in Katsina a ceremony of great significance held in the palace of the Emir, HRH Abdulmumini Kabir Usman where he turbaned Senator Ibrahim Ida as the Sardaunan Katsina. Senator Ida is a friend of this page and a keen follower, who has never hesitated to contribute to debates on thorny national issues.

MANY of us had resigned ourselves to the second term of Muhammadu Buhari as President, until the emergence of Abubakar Atiku as candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. A year ago, whenever I peered into the Nigeria’s political landscape, especially into the campaign year, I always failed to view anyone in the PDP, the other major party, or wherever, with the sufficient stature to challenge and deny Buhari a second term.

FINALLY, when the skies fell on Skye Bank there was hardly a whimper of surprise. Most stakeholders in the banking industry had seen it coming for long. If there is any surprise at all, it is the length of time it had taken the regulators to wield the big axe on the sick bank.

We have a very prosperous country with abundant resources that needs a little bit of better management to get us to where we want to be

Kuriel was so successful in Amul that in 1967, the Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri tasked Kurien to replicate the Amul’s success nationwide