RICHARD Dick Cheney the immediate past Vice President of the United States (US) is an international crook who should be in jail in his country, Iraq, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Britain, Azerbaijan or in Nigeria where last week, a sixteen-count charge was filed against him. But unfortunately, the scales of justice are not balanced, so he will escape justice with his loot.

WITH the agony of ‘Wikileaks‘ still raging, it may be difficult to avoid comment on such event which should not, other things being equal, be a topic to be mentioned or debated. It should be understood, and properly so, that many developing countries, especially, those which have passed through colonialism, have nothing which could be described as secret to their colonial masters.

WE have come a long way in all things, including the attempt to checkmate that big monster called corruption. The joke is told of how a machine that catches thieves was invented outside these coasts. That machine was dispatched to us to help catch those big thieves around.

From the deeps of the quagmire that is the endangered professional boxing in Nigeria beckons the lone surviving hope, in the form of Olusegun Ajose who is compelled to sacrifice his own Christmas and New Year pleasures as he pursues what looks to be a career defining assignment early in the new year.

“(Nigeria) is a strange country – its own political, intellectual and economic leadership are paid agents of other nations” – Obi Nwakanma, in his column, The Orbit in Sunday Vanguard, December 10th 2010.
OF all the things written so far