For God to be with you, you too have to be with God

Before her party got voted out of power via the most sophisticated polls we have ever had, erstwhile Petroleum   Minister Diezani Allison Madueke actually did some good. She was an active champion of the  Nigerian Content Act, which stipulates that every company executing a project in a community must establish a project office in that community with an attendant retention of created Nigerian Content value in Nigeria; which in turn is expected to stimulate the growth of the local communities including associated derivatives from Oil and Gas production.

There is a short video of a white mother who is exasperated with her children’s phones and social media activities that has been trending on social media: “I hereby denounce the effects social media have on my children…” Ordinarily, parenting is a long, winding road on a hilltop, no dulling. Social media just complicated parenting by adding storm and wetness to the long winding road.

Olisa Metuh is, ordinarily,  a man of swagger.  May affliction not befall us.  He came into the court a few days ago strapped to  stretcher,  draped in  hospital white. And tongues started wagging. I wish him a speedy recovery. Some tongues threw  curses into the air for  anyone who would compel such a sick man to come to court in an ambulance.  Others  read it differently. They saw deception and mischief. And they took to laceration and ridicule. They  told of  remarkable acting ability and a potential Oscar award. The pictures, from every angle,were sensational, scandalous. The multiplicity of what they evoked revealed a society riven by ethnic, religious and partisan allegiances and stuck in  pervasive corruption  and emotionality.

Young Murtala Mohammed was barely 13 when  Cadet officer, Zakari Maimalari,  became part of Intake 10 of the Royal Military  Academy, Sandhurst, England in September, 1951. The former was at the famous Barewa College before joining the Army. The latter would later toe the same part.