THE 2015 General election storm was expected to be rough. But the greatest fear was not before or during the turbulence; it was the anticipated after effects.

THE news hit like a thunderbolt; people were shell shocked. It had never happened before; that a national election that had commenced was being postponed. This is what in aviation circle could be called an air return; an aircraft that had taken off having to make a return to the airport for emergency reasons. In fact, an emergency situation was what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) characterised the situation.

IN the primary school in the Lagos of the late 1960s, pupils were taught three key subjects; arithmetic, English language and social studies. For the third subject, we had two primer books on the lives of great people.

CONGRATULATIONS! The number of our universities has swelled to 117, no mean achievement from the pre-independence days when we had only the University College, Ibadan. The irony is that when we had a handful of universities, they were some of the best in the world, today, our tertiary institutions cannot easily be captured on the radar of universities in Africa while they are missing amongst the world’s best.

ETSUKO KOYAM lived on the third floor of an apartment building in Japan. That was until last Friday when she saw water tearing through her apartment floor. She ran for dear life holding her dear daughter’s hand.