If you get to a seashore, every shell you don’t pick as it arrives goes back to the sea. So, you can be at
the shore and return home without a shell, just because you are not smart and sensitive enough to know how to grasp them.

It seems as if this year raced by. A most unusual year, good for some, awful for others but a year that mattered in many ways. It’s almost over and I have mixed feelings about the year; I can’t quite decide what mark to give it but all in all as years come it was rather interesting.

Monday, November 22, 2010 broke like any day. But differently for Abdul-Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola. The day broke with all expectation – will it or will it not be a good day? He had been working on his election for about three and half years. Will it end like in the last three times?

MR. Dimeji Bankole, the young speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is built like boxer. He’s also been known to have had at least one good brawl in office. Once, in fact, with my good friend and brother, the Honorable Independence Ogunewe, and this in the Chambers of the Federal House – and he did not pull his punches.

Sanusi is a pointer, and having performed the duty of pointing, it is left for the activists in our midst to push for the wrongs of indulgence to be righted. I think we have been indulging our organs of government by accepting that they can be judges in their own causes.