OLD Britain is in need of a rebirth. A born-again Britain has the potentials to help steer the world away from endless conflicts and strife. I say Britain because the world’s most powerful nation, the United States presents us with a choice of either Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump. While it makes common sense for Americans to vote Clinton who at this week’s first Presidential Debate showed she is intellectually endowed in contrast to noisy Trump, she is not committed to a new world.

NIGERIA is in a recession. It is commonly agreed that we did not get here by sprint. Rather, the journey was more of a long distance race in which every manager of the economy, past and present, is guilty as charged.

FOR quite some time this Column has been all about ‘politics’, ‘economy’ and the more humdrum subject of ‘good governance’ -or the lack of it. But last two weeks -in a series- it was all about one of my family members’ health concerns -a narrative around the subjects of ‘pain’ and ‘anguish’, but no less too about the outpourings of love and emotion.

THE first time I saw livestock in major roadways of a city was in December 1988 when, as a young reporter, I was in Sokoto city to cover the turbaning of Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki as the new Sultan of Sokoto.

THAT the country is in recession and the economic crisis in which we’ve found ourselves is biting hard is now old news. Yes, we are in recession and Nigerians are presently preoccupied with finding solutions to our economic troubles.