“Common sense is not common.” This was one of our popular sayings and jokes in the university. But the more I think about it, run it through my mind and apply it to situations in life, the more it makes sense. Many people come short on issues you assume they know due to beclouded senses and inexperience. Recently I was listening to a radio programme where the presenter was seeking advice for a young man.

It was around 6am on a Sunday morning of January 27th, 2013 and the Harmattan wind was blisteringly cold and rash, Yarbung villagers recalled. The body of police corporal Mathew Jacob, 31, lay in a coffin at his grandfather’s (Pa Gajere) compound in Yarbung, a normal farming community in Kachia Local Government Area, LGA of Kaduna state.

Danfo Bus, a commercial mini bus painted in yellow with two black stripes at the side, is one of the realities that make Lagos notorious. Lagos can not do without it in a day as it conveys thousands of commuters within the metropolis. It is also a means of survival for the owner, the driver and the conductor. It is not out of place to see a danfo bus at a bus stop with the conductor shouting on top of his voice, “Ojuelegba, Ojuelegba straight, enter with your change oh, I no get change oh!”

AIRSTRIKES, the pounding of the ground by powerful bombs raining from the skies, is on-going in three countries of the Middle East. Although the targets and victims including armed and unarmed persons, the strong and the weak, children and the elderly, women and children, schools and hospitals, are the same, they elicit different reactions. This depends on who is dropping the bombs, which side is doing the killing, who is doing the dying and who benefits economically or politically.

Yes, now that Reuben Abati, Jonathan’s erstwhile Media Adviser, is on the menu, again, maybe we should do some reminiscing on a familiar recipe -the Abati attention-seeking industry. Shortly after his Principal left office,