The revelation that President Muhammadu Buhari for the second time in as many weeks did not appear for the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC last Wednesday, had been set to upstage every other news item for the day and the coming weekend.

The church is the play ground for politicians

As a cub reporter with The Punch Newspapers in 1987, I interviewed the first indigenous female professor of a university. I asked her how she felt about the feat. She said she felt “fulfilled and vindicated.” Apparently, she felt the professorship should have come much earlier. I was uncomfortable with the word, “vindicated,” but I quoted her anyway. Later when I saw her, she complained that “vindicated” came too early in the story. In fact, she would have preferred it left out all together. Then I gave her an advice: “Ma, if you are talking to a journalist, assume you are talking to the whole world. Anything you would not say to the whole world, don’t tell a journalist.” “Is that so?” She retorted. “Yes ma,” I responded. I left her feeling giddy that a small boy like me had given a professor a lecture.

Death is no doubt an inevitable end. We shall all go to meet our creator, someday. Some see death coming, many go without any signs. A few face death. September 13, 1990 is one day I will not forget in a hurry.

A SPEC of humanity, mainly in Aviation, on April 12, marked the gagantuan achivement of a “shortish” man, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.