To ruminate over Nigeria, a nation with so much potential to make good in the eyes of the world is to remember the man who first used part of the above title when he captured the wrenching agony of living in apartheid South Africa half a century ago.

A COUPLE of weeks back, a London based Dubai estate agent was trying to persuade me to put money to a piece of land. There was no doubting the fact that it was cheap, relative to what obtains here at home in, let’s face it, less wholesome surroundings and living circumstances.

THE civil populace gave the military a black eye on January 27, 2010. On that day, Justice Opeyemi Oke ordered the Nigeria Navy and one of its star generals,a Rear Admiral to pay two victims: Miss Uzoma Okere and Mr Abdullahi Abdulazeez N100 million.

It should therefore be no surprise that despite ill health and obvious incapacity to continue in office, at least for now, Yar’Adua has maintained a vice-like, until-death-do-us-part grip on power that has kept Nigeria grounded and on tenterhooks for many agonising weeks. After this, do we still talk of a President Yar’Adua that is indifferent to or does not like power? What else could a power-obsessed politician have done?

IN going through newspapers, this comment attributed to Action Congress party in the Monday March 16, 2009 issue of The Nation caught my attention: