This is another season of joyful greetings. It’s festival time. It is an occasion of celebration for Muslims, though everyone joins in – Christians of all suasions, pagans of all denominations, atheists of every distinction, all identify in one way or the other with the festivities, at least, if not with the attendant observance which has several aspects; there are the purely religious which pleasantly flow into the social.

WHEN a daughter of humanity, Aung San Suu Kyi on November 14, walked out of house arrest after seven and half years imprisonment, not a few began a count down on the day the Myanmar junta may throw her back in detention.

MANY Nigerians believe and truly so, that we are a static nation because those politicians who are leading us are not the ones we would have chosen if given the opportunity of a free and fair elections.

THERE is a sense in which we must learn to extend our gratitude to the Falcons. Their victory in South Africa is a statement on commitment and passion.

MYANMAR, formerly known as Burma (its natives are still known as Burmese), has hit the headlines big-time in the past few days because Aung San Suu Kyi, the globally admired Burmese civil rights activist, has just been released by the ruling military junta, having spent l5 out of the past 2l years under house arrest.