It’s a big party, a rich man’s father is being buried somewhere in the eastern part of Nigeria, no expense is spared and all are invited. Someone invites a student from one of the universities nearby and she turns up with a retinue of 20 others who want to eat for free and possibly get some take-away packs to take back to school. Nothing unusual, students even in my days never had enough and if good food was going for free they were bound to turn up invited or otherwise.

St. Valentine’s Day for 2011 has come and gone, but it raises some fundamental questions about love which deserve thoughtful consideration. First and foremost, what is love? How can one differentiate genuine love, if such a thing exists, from counterfeit love? Why do we love at all? What are the basic ingredients that define love?

Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has candour.
He is honest and straight-forward. And, that is what you get from a man who tells you to your face why he would prefer this man to that man.

Indeed, “these are times that try men’s souls”. Perhaps we can relax a bit, now that we are assured that the political parties have “declared their intention” to nominate some specific representatives, or “flag-bearers”, for the forthcoming elections. The nominees continued to be shuffled like a pack of cards in the hands of a master gambler. And that seems to be precisely what those who are in the position to call the shots have been … gamblers with human lives.

THOUSANDS of people trooped out on last week Wednesday night expecting all their problems will be solved once they watched the Eagles play against Sierra Leone in Lagos. Their expectations failed woefully and the complaints have not ceased since then.