ANAMBRA is a traumatised state. It has been so from the times of the military locusts which constantly devoured its resources. The departure of the military in the country restored some measure of stability and sanity in many states, but not Anambra.

WHEN I was growing up in Obalende on the Lagos Island, an enlarged, glassed photograph hung majestically from the wall. It was that of a beautiful young woman who sat like Queen Elizabeth II in her official portrait.

FRANCE has been aflame for seven weeks as the President Nicolas Sarkozy government took on the people of France which elected it. The primary reason why the French are up in arms, the proposal to increase retirement age from 60 to 62 years, will shock the average Nigerian. That is putting it mildly; to many of them, the reason will appear insane.

I DO not belong to any political party or campaign organisation. But I am not apolitical. I do not know who will be president after the 2011 elections, but I do know that Nigerians will be committing political suicide if retired General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida were allowed to return to power.

LOCKING up seven young ladies and an equal number of men in a house for three months, plying them with inexhaustible amount of food, cigarettes, beer and hot drinks is like experimenting with human beings in a zoo. It is bound to bring out the worst in them. Endless quarrels, fights, drinking binges, drunkenness and open flirtation are bound to occur. This precisely is what the Big Brother Africa programme is about.