Hi readers! I do my bit to play the Good Samaritan, whenever I can and extend largesse to people, but I draw the line when it comes to being nice and generous to those who I know do not wish me well.

Someone told me that it is what the country did to Amodu Shuaibu, displaced Super Eagles coach, that God rewarded us for in South Africa. Was it not clear that something mysterious was happening to us? Argentina scored a goal that was queried after the event! But it led us nowhere.

They categorically did not witness any rancour except the one manufactured in the imagination of the reporter.
Akingrogun Osoba, a veritable reporter, was askance. He did not witness anything of such. Two natural rulers spent about six hours at the reception and did not remember any misbehavior. Rather there was talk of the many courses of food there were available. An Eastern Igwe was sure there were five or six – made up of snacks thrown in.

He reminds us why Nigeria has no reason to celebrate a 50th Independence celebration. That Nigeria is, afterall, still not free. That its political freedom is an illusion created to deceive, and that its lack of political freedom is the cause of its terrible underdevelopment, which demands from us to raise this question: “who governs Nigeria?” and that the answer to this question should naturally compel Nigerians to begin the second phase of the anticolonial nationalist movement. We have wasted half a century.

Several notable jurists and lawyers have spoken loud and clear about the virus of corruption spreading like HIV among judicial officers. For example, Kayode Eso, formerly of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, has expressed frustration at the elephantine level of corruption by judicial officers, and the manner judges and lawyers of big men and thick madams abuse legal minutiae and technicalities to delay and subvert the course of justice.