HOUSE of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole boasted before a visiting delegation of German parliamentarians that the mass uprisings that buried the Tunisian and Egyptian governments cannot happen in Nigeria.

A NIGERIAN soldier on international peace keeping in Haiti went out looking for food to buy. There was a riot by hungry Haitians looking for food to eat. The angry mob killed the Nigerian. Four other Haitians are killed in the riots and the government falls.

I KNOW that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a major problem in the country, but I confess to having a different opinion about President Goodluck Jonathan. Unlike most of the country’s past leaders, he appears to be a gentleman, level-headed, civilised and neither power conscious nor power drunk.

President Hosni Mubarak has succeeded in postponing his “Day Of Departure”. That was the day set aside by pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt for him to depart after three decades as president.

THE reaction of the Nigerian Government, as indeed many governments in Africa on the secession of Southern Sudan was muted. They did not want to be seen supporting the breakup of an African country when they themselves are also vulnerable. But the results of the independence referendum released this week should have put paid to that.