LET me seize this opportunity to bid our President, Muhammadu Buhari, welcome back from his medical trip to the United Kingdom. I am happy he is back on his feet instead of lying inside a life support machine even dead as earlier rumoured.

MAE West was essentially right when she asserted, “You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough”. The life and times of our late Sage, Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, lend full credence to West. Ogbemudia was one man who lived to the fullest. If re-incarnation were truly a fact of life, Ogbemudia’s achievements in his one life time could easily have surpassed the achievements of most men in their fourteen life times.

NIGERIANS are an ironically patriotic people. Ironic because despite all our posturing and avowed national pride, we remain incapable of taking logical, rational decisions preferring instead to defer, more often than not, to sentiment, thus ensuring we take several steps back every couple of years.

FORMER Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke alleges that all transactions involved in the Malabu settlement scandal were approved by the triumvirate of Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Jonathan.

THERE is a strong tendency towards hypocrisy in Nigeria, a country where sex scandals trail both politicians and pastors. Politicians go to university hostels to pervert young women,bankers send them out to rich businessmen as “bait”: BBN is the least of our problems.