MULLAH Mohammed Omar, founder of the Taliban Movement in Afghanistan is dead. He was one of the most feared ‘terrorists’ in the world. Yet, he was essentially, an Afghan patriot.

THERE is a jam in our tertiary institutions admission. Unfortunately, the regulatory Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which last month, raced to decongest the process, became part of the problem; creating more chaos leading to protests by students, teachers and parents. JAMB was forced to abandon its new policy.

THE Cuban flag has gone up in Washington DC. It had come down 54 years ago. The American flag is to go up in Havana on August 14. It had come down in 1961. Cuba had on July 20, packed about five hundred guests into its 16th Street mansion Embassy to raise its flag. It has two primary requests of its big brother neigbour; lift the 54-year embargo on Cuba, and get out of our Guantanamo Bay.

I AM interested in President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to the United States last week not because of the over N2 billion allegedly spent or the long retinue of aides that tagged along with the official delegates. I am not interested in whatever controversy arose from the trip or the brick bats in the social media.

IN Greek mythology, Sisyphus, founder and first King of Corinth, was accused of betraying the secrets of the gods, tricking and chaining death. He was sentenced to endlessly rolling a boulder up a hill and watch it roll down. Modern Greeks have been sentenced to a similar torture by their fellow Europeans since 2010.

IN Greek mythology, Sisyphus, founder and first King of Corinth, was accused of betraying the secrets of the gods, tricking and chaining death. He was sentenced to endlessly rolling a boulder  up a hill and watch it roll down.  Modern Greeks have been sentenced to a similar torture by their fellow Europeans since 2010.

NIGERIA is a reservoir of skillful footballers. From Thunder Balogun to Haruna Ilerika, Inua Rigogo to Emmanuel Okala, Tony Igwe (World Two) to Chairman Christian Chukwu (CCC) Sanni Mohammed to Muda Lawal, Kanu Nwankwo to Jay Jay Okocha, Nigeria produced them all.

MAY it please this Court. This is the case of the State versus Serena Jemeka Williams. She is charged with revolutionising the Tennis World not only in dominating the women championship which had been a preserve of whites, but also amassing a wealth of over $70 million and more importantly, at 33, and after over a decade of unfair dominance, refusing to give way.

WE are in an upbeat mood. Money is beginning to flow again. At least from the federal main supply, to the state and local government taps, and of course the federal tank which collects 52 percent of distributable funds. After months lamenting lack of funds, N804.7 billion was made available to be shared. I wonder what effect this will have on exchange rate as chunks of these funds flow through the tributaries of Bureau de Change and smuggling, into the larger oceans of world finance.

COME away my brothers and sisters. Come away from those foreign cultures where men make a career of bachelorhood and women make a hobby of single parenthood. Where men are applauded, even by presidents for allegedly changing their sex, and pre-nuptial agreements ensure that marriage, where it occurs between a man and a woman, is no longer ‘Till-Death-Do-Us-Part’