The activism of a Nigerian university teacher would be strange to his Western counterpart. If today clerics are joining rallies it is what the times demand. Neither Jesus Christ, the Jewish prophets nor the Prophet Mohammed to mention just a few were naturally made for the role history eventually recorded for them. Circumstances led them to it. As they have apparently led some in the media to take on our slumbering, dying and perhaps dead rulers who are determined to bring down the house on us all.

The Americans, British, French, Dutch, and Spanish, clinging to black and native slavery as the model of development, condemned the Haitians for this deep democratic constitutional stance. Haiti , in bold print and audacious policy, established itself as the center of world democracy and the only nation in the western world where all inhabitants were invested with the status of legal freedom and constitutional citizenship.

The critical failure of the CBN is in its key role in managing price stability in the economy; price stability is defined as ”the ability of a Central Bank to moderate inflation, attain stable interest and exchange rates and create a conducive climate for long term growth and development” (Section 2 of the CBN Act 2007). Indeed, the failure of CBN in its role of banking supervision, regulation and currency management are, in fact, the symptoms of failure in the management of price stability.

I had planned to use today’s column to share with my readers my experiences in Angola. Concrete experiences that is. While I was in Angola, I could not write freely on hard news and some experiences that had to do with the teams, especially the Super Eagles.

NIGERIA has gone into another political impasse. An impasse is a situation in which things neither move forward nor backward. It is a time when a major political issue freezes the nation to a spot, and nobody has time anymore to discuss core issues of development. It is like when a major calamity befalls a family.