Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga confirmed to an audience of financial correspondents and experts last week that the government will float a $500m Eurobond before the end of January 2011.

Last year, Nigerian football was at the cross roads.Good will set in, court cases were vacated, peace was expected to reign. Never again, the rancor, acrimony, inefficiency and corruption that bedeviled the sport we hold so dear.
This year, we were expected to take a decision, move forward, to the promised land.

Hi Readers! Based on what nanny had told me, I did my best to avoid Seb too, so that peace can reign. I couldn’t trust myself not to bring up the registry wedding issue if I got him on my own. I was successful in this for a day or so, but when my siblings arrived from down south, that changed immediately.

Primaries of the parties will have peaked by the end of this week. It was a rehashed of the parties. From Port Harcourt to Kaura Namoda; from Lagos to Maiduguri there were uprisings: in Lagos and, in Abeokuta; in Ibadan and Enugu.

Marlow finished that sentence in a way I can’t. But, as Nigerians again are now at dagger’s drawn over the recent election in Delta State and the first full election to be conducted under Professor Attahiru Jega, my heart bled. Ordinarily, the outcome should have provided another opportunity to say “I told you so.” But, the catastrophe that has befallen our nation far outweighs any feeling of triumph.