Indeed, the saying that health is wealth is not an understatement. When you lead a very busy and hectic lifestyle, you tend to take a lot of things for granted, like our complete physical and mental well being. With each passing day, we wake up and get ready to face the daily grind of our different professions, family life etc.

President Goodluck Jonathan bared his fangs two days ago by announcing the unceremonious removal of the EFCC chairperson, Mrs. Farida Waziri in a manner that defeats the anti-corruption crusade. Under the universal rules governing anti-corruption, you cannot hire and fire anybody just like that; trying to use corruption to fight corruption, without stating the reason for the removal.

MARIA Cecilia Toledo de Schmillen, the glamorous opera singer wife of a former German Ambassador to Nigeria, established AMEMUSO (the Abuja Metropolitan Music Society) and AMEMUSITO (a subsidiary for youngsters) while she and her husband, Joachim, were based in the Federal Capital.

We usually start well. We usually proffer workable solutions but like an intractable terminal disease, everything we say to promote growth of our football fades away just as the euphoria of starting afresh dims.

NATURAL gas is in the news again—ushered in on a new wave-crest of conflict and controversy, arising from the Federal Government’s extension of the deadline for extracting firms to end gas flaring to December, 2013.

You hold the keys of heaven and hell. Power to bind and loose: bind, Thomas, bind, King and bishop under your heel. King, emperor, bishop, baron, king – T. S. Eliot in MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

My attention has been unduly drawn to the unending reaction of a sizeable percentage of the public in the aftermath of last weekend’s encounter in Las Vegas between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez.

THE Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is asking for moderate revolutions, oblivious perhaps that there are no moderate revolutions.

IT was a throwback to the Olusegun Obasanjo days as President of Nigeria and “life leader” of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. That was when the strategy of working a political process to suit the declared fancies of the leader or few oligarchs of the party was perfected.

TALKING Point this week features a piece which, I hope, would present a welcome diversion from the often-depressing focus on Boko Haram and other aggravating excesses of our politicians. It is from one of the more devoted followers of the column and it throws light on an important aspect of the financial sector.

ONE of the most profound statements I have come across in recent time is that we cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are! Every time I reflect on this maxim, I end up asking myself whether in truth, we Nigerians really want to make progress and become the developed country that we want to be.

IN the November 15, 2011 edition of the Tuesday Platform I reviewed General Don Idada E. Ikponmwen’s proposal for the reform of Nigeria’s defence and security sector. He had argued for a coordination of the services through a new office. He argued that such a reform will improve the efficiency of the defence and security sector.

Last week I wrote about the daunting task Stephen Keshi faced against Botswana, a quality opposition which unfortunately we were not in a position to appreciate before the tie.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan seems dead serious about reforming our body politic. Less than six months after he was sworn in as elected president, he has made a second attempt to show this.

The triumph and the tragedy Soludo as we have noted, succeeded at first with consolidation. He probably even succeeded beyond his own dreams because in less than three years after consolidation, four Nigerian banks were among the 1000 largest banks in the world; as it turned out, only on paper.