I AM converting this topic to a two-part serial in response to a challenge posed by one of the readers. He or she did not supply his/her name, but the GSM number is 08033539191. And the text message reads: “Your article on page 49 in the Vanguard of today (Monday October 31st 2011) is not in-depth at all. You wrote about why the 1979 and 1999 Constitutions failed. You even wrote why suggestions by others will not work but you did not do a good job on how yours will succeed”. May I thank the reader for this prompting. There must be millions of others who share this view.

This week, we publish the above titled piece by a guest columnist. The content, as avid readers will observe, is in consonance with what we have preached in this column for several years.

It is inconceivable that the Federal Minister of Finance and team leader of the National Economic Management Team, would imagine that she can succeed with her assignment without a strong banking sector behind her.

It all started with my appointment by CAF as one of the four General Coordinators for next year’s Nation’s Cup to be hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. By implication I was to be part of the draws to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea in Malabo.

HI Readers! The bus tour of London really loosened me up, and all the loneliness and self-pity I had been experiencing disappeared fast. I couldn’t help wishing that we had something similar back home, say, in Lagos , Abuja, or any of the big cities. It’s so relaxing and educative too.

When I consider what Nigerians are exposed to in all areas of life in this country, I can’t help but admire their high spirit of tolerance, perseverance and ‘make do.’

As a young girl, she discovered her gift of speaking in tongues and prophecy at a time when she knew virtually nothing about such things as she was born into an Anglican church family. Fate had its way, and today, Bishop Chioma Grace Dauji is the Founder/Presiding Bishop of Amazing Grace Pentecostal Church in Lagos. She shares with Vista Woman her passion for serving God and humanity, particularly her work with prison inmates. Her words:

A few days ago, I was discussing with a colleague who is a Professor at the University of Lagos. Along the line, he told me that some of the things I wrote concerning our union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and its proclivity to indefinite strikes made his stomach churn.

For some time now, the National Assembly has done some good work in its effort to redirect public affairs to the path of good governance. The Assembly has been busy getting several government officials to appear before it to clarify certain issues of public interest.

The evolution of caterpillar to butterfly is the transformation of a creature from ugly to beautiful; from obscure to outstanding and it is a process quite a few of us humans can relate to.

Each time Sanusi Lamido Sanusi opens his mouth, most of us are compelled to listen. For he makes some good sense. But this is not to say that we do not say some good sense as well.

“It is expected that based on the implementation of the Vision 20:2020 Economic Blueprint, which again goes to the root of resource management, the nation’s GDP should be growing at about 14 per cent per annum from 2010 to 2020, to realize this vision.

The ‘new black’ is a term mostly used in fashion circles to describe a new or recurrent trend. When someone used the term to describe rape in our society; I thought to myself how apt, given the incessant number of incidents that have occurred in recent times. Babies, toddlers, teenagers, fully grown women, boys and girls; nobody is speared.

One is getting unusually stressed up these days as a result of the very unsavoury news we get about our economy, politics and the future of Nigeria. Everything we do in Nigeria has a corruptive undertone; appointments, fiscal responsibility, allocation of resources, distribution of wealth, and appropriation of responsibilities, patronage, and general lifestyles.

I love watching crime, thrillers and court- room or legal-based movies. It is quite intriguing for me to see how the perpetrator of a particular crime could get away with it due to lack of sufficient evidence, how the detectives arrive at a conclusion that leads to the capture of a criminal, or the thrill of the chase when the killer tries to escape from the police.