Last Tuesday, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Nnamidi Okorie Affiah, reportedly laid to rest the speculations making the rounds that corps members serving in Edo State had been compromised to work for the incumbent Governor.

“What sort of people do they think we are?” Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II, in reply to Hitler’s demand for the British to surrender while under German bombardment.

There are many people today across the world who earn their living as professional naijaskeptics. These people drum up and sustain the idea of Nigeria as an impossible creation, a place existing between Dantesque purgatory and hell. Nothing good will ever come out of Nigeria, and for them, the greatest good will come only with the collapse of Nigeria as a sovereign nation.

For some time, I had this feeling that the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (M.A.N.), which is the mouth-piece of manufacturers in Nigeria, had stopped functioning, since I’ve not been reading of its reactions to government’s policies regarding the production sector in this country.

A lot have been said and written since President Goodluck Jonathan renamed my alma mater, the University of Lagos, as Moshood Abiola University on May 29, ostensibly to honour Chief M.K.O. Abiola. According to Jonathan, the federal government believes that the late businessman cum politician deserves “recognition for his martyrdom and public spiritedness and for being the man of history that he was.”

Jesus says: “He who believes in me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to my Father.” (John 14:12). This statement has confounded many Christians.

Mrs. Ayo Idaomi is a renowned lawyer with over two decades worth of experience in the legal practice. She is also one of the project coordinator of the Annual Autism Seminar organised by Women of Worth, divinely-inspired anointed sister, popularly known as WOW VIVAS.

A Sad State Of Freedom. Optimism is a choice I make as a way of life. I have always thought no matter how dark the night, dawn would break and bring light. Survival is and will always be the name of the game, the trick is to remain standing against the odds and just wait, to make time a friend and let it bring healing and new opportunities!

There is hardly anyone who has traveled with any of the local flights on more than ten occasions who does not have some harrowing experiences to recount. I have lost count of how many times I have found myself in the midst of crying, praying, and, screaming passengers inside a plane which had developed some mechanical fault or the other.

That is the first line in the chorus of a popular tune which says, “ One day, One day, One day e go better for me, I go get money, I go get pikin, I know one day, one day, one day e go better”. That is the constant and unshakeable prayer on the lips of most Nigerians these days. That is my fervent prayer; that one day, indeed, there will be a turn around.

HEADS definitely need to roll in the Nigerian aviation industry, in the wake of the Dana airline disaster – the deadliest in our entire aviation history.

I WAS taken aback a bit, saddened but not depressed, when one of those commenting on my last week`s article on Who Will Save Nigeria wrote bluntly, `Nigeria is cursed with oil` and `No One Can Save Nigeria`. I must confess that my acquaintances with `CURSE` of any kind would be through reading books on witches in Medieval Europe and that witches would curse their tormentors.

THIS has been a very sad month for me. First I lost two people – a friend and an in-law – in the Dana plane crash. Then, last weekend, Angela Onyeador, a wonderful vibrant woman I’ve known since I was born, quietly passed away in an American hospital after a protracted illness.

Your article today is an interesting piece. Character is what is lacking in our national teams, not skills. When pride and indiscipline enter through the door, determination and knack for honor fly out through the window.

I HAVE been holed up in Kaduna since Saturday afternoon; my family is based here, so I travel between Abuja and Kaduna almost every week, when I am not visiting Ilorin or other destinations within and outside Nigeria. I was servicing my vehicle on Sunday morning, when news broke of the bombings in the churches in Zaria and Kaduna.