Before I go into the subject of our discourse today, it is important to make some classifications in order to avoid possible misunderstandings about my motive for deciding to review a book written by a Muslim scholar concerning the death, resurrection and ultimate fate of Jesus, the alleged founder of Christianity.

Literary Author Henrik Ibsen, in most of his works has advanced cogent philosophical rationale for supporting the ‘righteous minority’ -as against, that is, what he described as the “damned compact, liberal majority.” Ibsen was in fact one of few Western literary writers who created and promoted an antithesis to the popular so-called democratic refrain ‘the majority is always right’. He argued on the contrary that it is the minority that is always right “because the minority is usually at some point where the majority is yet to discover”.

The Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos. lies to the West of the island on the waterfront. The church magazine is thus appropriately named, By the Lagoon, for that is precisely where it is at the corner piece of Odunlami Street and “Ehin Igbeti,” to give the Marina its native name.

I AM not a fan of the PDP. I think it is a lousy party. But I will root for it tomorrow because it happens to have Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at its helm.

WE have spent years agonising over funding of sports. The illusion is that governments spend billions of Nigeria on sports. It is an illusion because the money is released late and the funding takes no proper account of sports timetables and the implications of the funding system.