Dear Subscriber, your bi-monthly ring tunes tariff of fifty naira has been deducted from your account. Thanks for staying with us. ……………..’

When I received this text message out of the blue, many months ago, my reaction was to send a reply immediately.

In just two weeks from today a new governor will be sworn in who will occupy Douglas House, the Governor’s lodge in Owerri. Rochas Anayochukwu Okorocha was elected by Imo people in a hard fought election in which the incumbent Ikedi Ohakim was roundly defeated.

“My Fellow Countrymen”, behave as if history does not count for anything. It is no longer taught in the schools. And OBJ in one of his most destructive statements once said the teaching of social “sciences” should be discouraged in schools! That is ‘leadership’ for you!! I started reading Medicine, ended up graduating in Economics and now I wish I read History. For me, History and Philosophy are the most interesting of all subjects. What has that got to do with tsunamis and armed robbery? Plenty.

I think I understand the psychology of the average Muslim. Or nearly do. This psychology is coded in their belief of the inevitability of destiny. Some of them have honed it to an art. So, when Yuguda spoke that the youth corps “only fulfilled their destinies”, that was what he meant.

Last week, I asked readers to react on the cheating in age grade competitions as was highlighted by ex international Adokiye Amiesimaka in his comment in Vanguard two weeks ago.