Have you been working night and day by your own power, without any positive result? Have you been depending on your university degree thinking that it is what will give you all you need? Hear this: Just one encounter with God is much more than a lifetime of struggles and efforts. Every day is God’s day; the day you believe is your day. God has more than enough resources to meet all the desires of every living being (Psalm 145:15-16).

Most animals shed skin at regular intervals and we regenerate new ones. In humans the process is rather unceremonious and happens all the time but not so in reptiles. When I was younger I had seen a lizard in the process of shedding skin and had been riveted.

President Goodluck Jonathan did say he would not preside over a disintegrating nation. This was in an interview granted recently to a national newspaper which had broached the question of the possibility of a dismembered Nigeria.

In every aspect of life- education, employment, healthcare, housing, nutrition, interpersonal relationships, and general well-being – the spirit of selfless service is extremely important. Even simple kindness to a stranger in need is an act of selfless service.

The Nigerian media can hardly be idle because there is always one event or the other begging for media coverage in the country. One body which always makes this possible is the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) – a body which has successfully placed Nigeria ahead of all other countries in the disruption to the academic calendar of universities.

Of the many jurisprudential issues raised last Monday by Richard Akinjide at the Special Session of the Supreme Court marking the commencement of a new legal year, was the United States’ near-Constitutional crises of 2000. That year, U S electorates were in a quandary; and the ‘democratic’ world itself was ‘curiously transfixed’ –by the G.W. Bush-Al Gore Presidential Election debacle.

One of the exasperating and sometimes tragic aspects of situations that are patently intractable is their tendency to develop unpredictable ramifications.

In the midst of a plethora of happenings around the country, one is often at sea as to what should occupy one’s attention. Nigeria is a country that is usually entrenched in fluctuating moments, with palpable fear walking on the streets. Everywhere you turn, the fear of fear grips you with uncultured fervor. Yesterday, it was bomb scare, today it is bomb blast. Only God knows what tomorrow holds for us.

Who are the people in your neighbourhood? They are the people that we meet when we are walking down the street; they are the people that we meet each day.

THERE are too many inspiring stories from Africa that we can ignore them mostly at our own risk. At a time the African Union could only raise $20 million (N3.1 b) for the famine victims in Somalia, an individual -Samuel Eto’o – is earning 20 euro (N4.2b) a year.

I recently visited the United States and was invited to the official opening of an impressive, world-class Benue Culture Exhibition in Washington DC.

I RECENTLY visited the United States and was invited to the official opening of an impressive, world-class Benue Culture Exhibition in Washington DC.

In the context of this article, the word ‘We’ is meant to refer to the developing countries of the world, especially Nigeria, while ‘Them’ would refer to the rich nations of the western world. Nigeria may not be as rich as Britain or the United States of America (USA) but it is possible for the country to enjoy a measure of wealth and a tolerable amount of satisfaction within its limited resources.

What I am really driving at is this: Okonjo-Iweala’s success or failure will depend much more on how much she has learned from her previous experiences in Nigeria, and how well she understands present realities, than her academic credentials or anything she may have achieved at the World Bank.

Last week Friday, I was at the international wing of the Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with two other columnists. As we waited for a friend to arrive in a different flight, an item on the front page of THE Sun newspaper caught our attention: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had paid a visit to the family of Babakura Fugu, the brother-in-law of the leader of Mohammed Yusuf, the slain Boko Haram leader.