The count down is on. I believe it is a co-incidence that the last friendly matches preparatory to the World Cup should be in the frame of what is now the 100 days count down to the World Cup. What is not a coincidence is that the organisers of the World Cup have lined up series of programmes aimed at bringing home the reality of an event that is still a subject of doubt in the western media.

Jonathan has been confronted with the same spurious arguments and proposals that will ensure that deregulation and its beneficent impact will never become a reality! For example, it is unrealistic to expect that government could provide adequate infrastructural supports like functional power service, better roads, better schools, more refineries, etc, etc before deregulation! It is impractical to expect the realization of all the above in the next five or even ten years with subsisting monetary framework, economic policies and our revenue profile.

Hi readers! At any given time, trust nanny to be on Seb’s side. After the bombshell from Michel that Seb wanted me to put up Peace, the lady ‘on trial’ from Jos, I confided in nanny and asked her her opinion. As for me, the request filled me with horror. Was it because Seb bought the duplex for our children and me that he feels entitled to use it to house his guests?

The secrecy in conducting government’s business, the convenient option of hiding under the cloak of collective cabinet responsibility, are attempts by those who wish to alienate the people from the officials whose decisions affect their lives profoundly, those who want to bury their individuality in the anonymous crowd. It is a deadening aspect of intoxicating power of power which have wreaked untold havoc in different human societies throughout histiory.

I remember Tosin Sangonuga who died at 21, Toyin Onagoruwa, cut down by a hail of bullets in his twenties, my baby sister Modupe Ogunjobi, dead at 10years and so many others and I begin to thank God and celebrate him for the privilege of grey hair. There may be wear and tear showing on us all but they are testimonies of all we have seen and conquered!