IT was a straight eight-hour African wake in Lagos, the continent’s most populous city with a bulging seventeen million population. It was for Fidel Castro on the eve of his funeral. We knew his spirit was at the National stadium venue. It is not the Western concept of spirit which is exorcised. In Africa, the spirit of our loved ones stay with us and we honour them with dances, chants, praises, songs and tributes before they depart to the Pantheon of our ancestors from where they watch over us.

The Honourable Minister was speaking in Vienna after the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, had voted to cut supplies for six months in order to firm up the price of crude oil globally. OPEC went further to exclude Nigeria from the widespread cut because the other members had long regarded this country as the “poor cousin” whose dependence on crude revenue is almost total – unlike others. So, Nigeria was allowed to keep its 2.2 million barrels per day quota.

When a man sins against God, he does not realise that he is also sinning against his own soul. He is actually condemning his own soul to death. God says: “He who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.” (Proverbs 8:36).

There is never a smoke without a fire. Somewhere in-between all these is the problem of distrust. There is deep distrust of President Buhari in the South East, and the president continues to fuel it

Virtually all the commentaries in the Nigerian media concerning the largely surprising outcome of the November 8 presidential election in the United States of America suffer from one fundamental defect: they were not situated within a philosophical theory or paradigm which alone can give intellectual depth and meaning to such an important event pregnant with possibilities of global ramifications.