One of the realities which has ushered us into our Independence Day is that of a thousand Naira exchanging for a dollar. We had thought about the possibility of that happening in the past but I always thought we were exaggerating things. I never thought it could happen in my lifetime coming as it were, from the days a Naira exchanged for two dollars. What is marking the day with us tomorrow is not only a depreciating Naira, it is the hyper-inflation that comes with it.

General Obasanjo, like General Adebayo, has always paid his respects to this ancient tradition – I have seen a picture of him prostrate before an Oba before. And to the best of my knowledge, these respects have always been reciprocated by the Obas. This is why the public humiliation that happened in the ancient town of Iseyin last week caught many observers by surprise.

Dressed mostly in white, he stood apart from the rest. Unlike some others, his disability was obvious- a leg was amputated

I am of the school of thought which believes that wealth, like many other endowments, is a gift from God to be held in trust by men. Any of these gifts, including power and positions, can be taken away at any time and not necessarily by death

As the plane taxied to a stop, a member of the cabin crew said the familiar, often clichéd words of how nice it had been taking care of us then added jocularly that she would see us all on our way back when we ‘have all become fabulously rich’. To which a cynical passenger could […]