Me, I am frightened. It was reported, at first, that the vehicle which carried a live bomb into the National Headquarters of the Nigeria Police, was driven by a man who was programmed, and content, to die in the explosion. Then the statement was retracted.

MANY Nigerians, perhaps still suffering from a bout of post elections hay fever, are still confused about their present and worried about their future. Apart from the shocking deadly disturbances in some parts of the North after the elections, bombs continue to rock Abuja, the capital city with disturbing frequencies. And yet, Nigerians are hopeful.

LAST week, I praisedEsther Salami, a beautician who displayed remarkable integrity by telling me that I had accidentally overpaid her by N1000.

IT was National Mirror newspaper of Tuesday, July 12, 2011, which first reported that the presidency had “concluded plans to send a bill to the National Assembly for a single term of seven years for governors and presidents.

verywhere you look there is mounting evidence that the system that currently drives Nigeria as a nation is not working. Nigerians are not benefiting from the normal objectives for which people belong to countries.

QUITE often, we lampoon judges, particularly when they deliver judgements that are distasteful to us. These judges come in various forms – good, bad; corrupt and incorruptible.

LAST week, on the very ominous 13th day of the month, terrorists struck in India’s largest city, Mumbai, killing 17 people with more than 100 injured.

THE Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, SAN, took what I regard as a courageous stand during his screening by the Senate on Thursday June 30, 2011.

IT is a truism in Nigeria that the surest way to become wealthy, very wealthy is through the business of office holding at any of the three levels of government.

As you are reading this, I am transiting in Cairo.
I left Algiers yesterday, after Coordinating the CAF Champions League match between Mouloudia d’Alger and Esperance of Tunisia.

It would be mischief on the part of this column if we subscribed to the bandwagon of elitist Nigerians whose stock in trade is the creation of false hope of a better year ahead at the end of every dismal year.

IT is a classic case of déjà vu. Everybody must have watched an event unfold and wondered where he/she had seen exactly the same thing before. This is not an essay to enquire into this psychedelic phenomenon. But if you are not sure exactly what déjà vu (which translates literally as “already seen”) means, the wars of two Attorneys-General of the Federation and Ministers of Justice, Chief Mike Aondoakaa and Alhaji Mohammed Adoke, both Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, on the independence of the anti-graft agencies, will illustrate it succinctly.

Today, we remember with delight the then Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia, erstwhile Military Governor of the old Midwest region who transformed the region beyond imagination. He built the University of Benin and its Teaching Hospital; established Midwest Television now NTA Benin; set up the Nigerian Observer; built the State Secretariat and the High Court complexes as well as the Stadium which became famous for an annual international tennis championship-the Ogbe Hard Court.

She still finds it hard to believe that the lives of innocent Youth Corps members could be terminated simply because of the outcome of a general election. Dr. Lady Gloria Chuma-Ibe, Director for Exhibitions & Museum at the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization- CBAAC in Lagos, strongly fears that this sudden loss of value for human life could degenerate into an uncontrollable national crisis if not addressed.

Not too long ago, I had been on my way home from a land so very far away. My journey each way included 2 rather long haul flights, two 3 hour stop overs and then a 4 hour drive before I would eventually be at my destination.