“The political world is stimulating. It’s the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollars”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.

THERE is one characteristic trait that endears a Nigerian to his host wherever he goes. It is not entirely clear whether the particularly advanced propensity of the Nigerian to adapt is the result of his being fundamentally African or just a survival tool he has adapted; a fallout of colonialism and its neo-colonial cousins.

Victor Ladipo Akintola, Akintola’s son in his book, Akintola: The Man and the Legend, wrote that there were demands by the late Oba D. C. Akran that he with his richer political experience deserved to be Deputy Premier not Fani Power. He wrote: “It was a silly, irrational demand since Fani-Kayode was a man whose extreme toughness would be useful to the party in the rough political ride that was to come”. And the rough and tough times actually came with burning and looting, thuggery and murder of political opponents.

THIS is the cost paid by God, the offering of His Son, that through the death of one Son, He may obtain many sons by faith in the death of the one Son offered to bear the sins of the many. This is why God says: “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 8:12).

THE U-17 World Cup football championship has ended and contrary to expectations that Nigeria would win the championship for a record fourth time, the country’s team failed to live up to this last-minute dream.