I’ve often argued in this column that with better communication not only would people’s perception of government action improve, so would its strategies and overall ability to meet its objectives. Carrying Nigerians along has always been a problem for successive administrations, with public officials in Nigeria seemingly (and bewilderingly) believing their electorates’ feelings and opinions matter little.

Nigeria’s journey from fraternal hostility to national integration was on course (at least with no major or visible bumps) for nearly a quarter of a century after the civil war ended. But from the mid- 1990s onward the country entered a new and sustained phase of ethnic tension following a long period of military rule led by Nigerians from the North of the country.

Any list of appointments is scru-tinised by Nigerians to see whether it contains the names of someone from their state or political zone. If the list contains no one from their area, they instinctively reject the list and complain that their people are marginalised.

GOD bless the soul of Senator Abraham Adesanya on the other side of eternity.There was no one who stayed around the late good old man for long that would not remember his depth of Yoruba philosophy with his wisecracks and anecdotes.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Lagos State government have different reasons for desperately averting possible Skye Bank distress. Even the hint of likely distress inhibiting deposits and inviting a run on the bank is not in their interests. For the CBN, the collapse of any bank, at this time, is likely to create collateral damage affecting other banks, governments, the organized private sector and the financial system. So their anxiety on this matter is understandable.