PDP got it wrong from the beginning. The party started by saying Mr. A can rule, and Mr. B cannot rule, according to PDP conventions, rules and regulations are not according to the constitution. That created a climate for what is happening or manifesting itself in the country.

IT is a common phenomenon that when an administration becomes bereft of ideas, it begins to dabble into everything. The loss of one genuine purpose would lead to the pursuit of a dozen pseudo purposes.

LONG before they took their bombing misadventure to the premises of THISDAY Newspapers in Abuja and other media in Kaduna last week, I had the feeling that Boko Haram, Nigeria’s cell of the Al Qaeda Jihadist terrorist network, would try it, though exactly where they might start was not clear. When you are dealing with a sophisticated enemy it pays to study and understand the way they think and move. Then you will be able to anticipate what they are likely to do next.

BY the time you read this piece, a pile of sand around the Asaba Airport which had been planned for removal at the reported cost of N7.4b to allow President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential plane to land at Asaba may have been cleared, or may still be there.

WHILE it is possible for me to describe Governor Aregbesola’s attitude to religion as one best summed up in the philosophy of ‘Live and let live’, for which reason he gives free expression to his religious beliefs, even in public and with the implicit understanding that other citizens could and, very often, do the same thing, one must also admit that the Governor’s attitude, for the very fact that he is governor, might lead other people to different conclusions as are now being made by opposition elements in and outside the state.

IT is not yet one year since President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as president, yet the nation is being dragged into a vulgar fight over who succeeds him in 2015! That is the nature of Nigerian politics that is very disgusting.

This would be the third alert I would issue in the last fifteen years about a banking crisis about to occur. Almost invariably, the banking crisis causes collateral damage in the capital market – which heads down as a result. The recent appointment of market makers by the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, might represent taking on fresh fuel before a ship capsizes. It will not help; it might even add to the problems that would result from the carnage.

SECURITY (including general police work) and journalism belong to professions closely associated with dogs. In the first year of mass communication at the university you are taught that a good newsman must have “nose for the news”. Top dogs such as hyenas and wolves can smell carcasses from a mile off.

In the same manner that the Judiciary is regarded as the last hope of the common man, so also the Media has often been described as the voice of the people, but the role of the Media exceeds the mere expression of public expectations.

John Muinjo is the Chairman of the Namibia Football Association. He was in Cairo last week for the FIFA Workshop for Elite Match Commissioners in Africa and that is where I met him.

A house is laid on a foundation to give it support, strength and even structure. It’s not feasible to build a house without a base on which everything now stands. Human beings also have foundations and I would dare to say that our parents are the foundations on which we build the rest of our lives.

…. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

“I CAN TELL YOU THAT President Goodluck Jonathan knows those behind this ugly act. He is taking it with levity; he has refused to expose them. The President is demonstrating his weakness and telling the whole world that he is not capable of ruling the nation.

The word of God came to me the very first time during an armed-robbery attack. “Femi,” he said, “nothing is going to happen to you here.” Immediately, one of the robbers contradict-ed him by firing a bullet into my left leg. Even so, the word continued: “Femi, there is nothing wrong with your leg.”

I was bewildered the other week when an attendant at a diesel outfit in Ikoyi, Lagos, refused to serve me because I didn’t have an ATM card.