I walked into the City of David parish of the Redeem-ed Christian Church of God, Lagos, for the very first time and was surp-rised to hear the choir playing the theme song from the blockbuster movie, Mission Impossible III. Don’t get me wrong; the choir was excellent. But you start to wonder if you are not actually at a pop-concert as opposed to a church.

A friend sent me a link a few weeks back (www.ogorip.com). I was sceptical about opening it as I did not want to download any virus into my phone. I had to call her and ask what the link contained. She said to me: “Kate, open it, it is the kind of thing you would be interested in”.

A friend recently asked me about Nigeria and “what’s going on.” He was shivering in the cold weather to which the Eastern coast of the United States, particularly, is subject at this time of the year.

NO doubt, the late Dr Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi, who died on Wednesday at age 95, was an accomplished medical practitioner. Although, he devoted about 89 years of his life to medicine, his six- year stint in politics appeared to have entrenched him more in the consciouness of Nigerians.

The downside of my day job is that when things get intense that make-believe world can become my reality and other than close family members and their needs (oh my kids are guaranteed to bring me down to terra firma with a bump!) very little else penetrates.

THE great debate is on. It has something to do with the political stability of our great country – Nigeria. Every Nigerian is expected to join in the search for that golden greatness, which has eluded the country. It may be pertinent to ask, what are we searching for?

It was a short but moving speech, one that made many flash back to the days when local sports commanded so much passion and made Nigerians proud of what they had.

FOR some time now, thieves have invaded the privacy of the police by going to cart away, a large part of the money meant for taking care of the old men and women who had helped to catch thieves in years past. We are also informed that the thieving of the police money could be the handiwork of people closely related to them.

OBASANJO is quite personable- much of the time-and…like most rulers, he desperately wanted to be accepted as a political and economic strategist, and thinker…our hero represented a model of power of an unusual-and dangerous- kind, most especially as he remains basically insecure, and thus pathologically in need of proving himself-preferably at the expense of others.

THE Nigeria Police have in the last few weeks been ‘test running’ the proposed uniform for their personnel. The camouflage uniform which was unveiled by the IG, M.D. Abubakar in the second week of March will, when and if it is finally approved, become one of a couple of uniforms to be used by members of the Police Force in their operations.

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo and Chairman, Board of Trustees of the People Democratic Party (PDP) made a turn on his celebrated political route, and has left the nation guessing and following with intense interest.

WE run an executive driven government and this is why unconstitutional change of the executive government is followed by constitutional retooling of the political system. In this process, the legislative and judicial branches offer no barrier to unconstitutional change of government.

Throughout the House of Representatives and Senate Committee sessions on sports, there was a consensus that money was the root of all our football woes.

The economist, like anyone else, must concern himself with the ultimate aims of man”. Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924. The father of classical economics. To Marshall’s observation, another economist had added that anything that does not make economic sense [to most people concerned] has no chance of succeeding.

In the first part of this article, which was published last week, we gave a brief narration of how Lamido Sanusi and his predecessors as Central Bank Governor brazenly discountenanced alternative advocacy that could redeem and positively transform our economy.