IT’S no longer news that the average woman could be as dangerous a predator as her male counterpart. Men have always used dirty tricks to get women into bed against their will. So when a women, wanting a bit-on-the-side from a man she fancies, uses all her wiles to get him, why can’t he take it in his stride and ‘chop and wipe mouth’ without complaining the ploy was Jezebel’s? Early last year,

She is neither. Rigour has become outdated, noisy charlatanism reigns. Howlers are everywhere. So Kemi Adeosun scampered to safety. She left her case. The accusation of blasphemy by Nigeria’s ‘Almajiris’ , religious or political, is not fought with reasons and arguments. A minister of finance has a duty to be honest and compassionate, and a compelling duty to prevent and stem panic. The proposed emergency economic bill is evidence of direness and government’s appreciation of it. It’s incontrovertible that sufficient urgency and dexterity haven’t been marshaled against our predicament. But it isn’t because Adeosun is ignorant or callous.

As the International Energy Forum, IEF biennial meeting convenes next week in the Mediterranean port city of Algiers, participants may be glimmering for opposing forces to effectively cancel each other out and maintain stability in what has been described as the longest and deepest oil price decline since 1986.

It was an unusual meeting at the Maitama, Abuja residence of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki last Wednesday. His guests were the principal officers of the Senate and their corresponding colleagues in the House of Representatives who were led by Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

The children of the late Mrs Florence Jadesola Aboderin last Friday held a posthumous 80th birthday party for their mother who was the first wife of Chief Olubunmi Aboderin, the founding Chairman of the Punch newspapers.