“Presido, RE: PIB. What u said about Mark and Bankole is, as usual, monumental. They can make history & name. Let us watch and see what they do.” Chukwukere, Garki.

The swell of public anger rose so high in the last three weeks in Egypt, it sustained the push for what many now call the “Egyptian Revolution.” The protests and the popular movement ousted President Hosni Mubarak who had led Egypt under the emergency law since the assassination of Anwar Sadat on October 6, 1981.

In fairness to man, he never begrudges the woman headship of the ‘house’. The power house that is; –kitchen! The ‘dining’? Don’t even think about it! Any time ‘man’ puts the ‘woman’ ahead of himself outside of the kitchen, beware there’s some chestnuts to be pulled out of the fire. Man is like the proverbial sex-hungry cockerel; covetously ready to bribe with the ‘grain’ and prepared to swallow ‘pebbles’; but who no sooner have his ‘mating fill’ than he grows crest-pride and dismissive.

Pioneer African nationalist leaders who fought for independence were no doubt gallant agitators but they certainly were not democrats. What they sought after was power not democracy.

There are battles in your life that appear obviously mightier than your strength, and tougher than your wisdom. Because of the complex nature of the battles, you don’t know what else to do. You have done all you know to do, but all to no avail. When you switch over to praise, God will show up in your favour.

I must confess that I was a bit upset about the image that some of the readers who responded to the piece above are giving to our Nigerian women.

It’s a big party, a rich man’s father is being buried somewhere in the eastern part of Nigeria, no expense is spared and all are invited. Someone invites a student from one of the universities nearby and she turns up with a retinue of 20 others who want to eat for free and possibly get some take-away packs to take back to school. Nothing unusual, students even in my days never had enough and if good food was going for free they were bound to turn up invited or otherwise.

St. Valentine’s Day for 2011 has come and gone, but it raises some fundamental questions about love which deserve thoughtful consideration. First and foremost, what is love? How can one differentiate genuine love, if such a thing exists, from counterfeit love? Why do we love at all? What are the basic ingredients that define love?

Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has candour.
He is honest and straight-forward. And, that is what you get from a man who tells you to your face why he would prefer this man to that man.

Indeed, “these are times that try men’s souls”. Perhaps we can relax a bit, now that we are assured that the political parties have “declared their intention” to nominate some specific representatives, or “flag-bearers”, for the forthcoming elections. The nominees continued to be shuffled like a pack of cards in the hands of a master gambler. And that seems to be precisely what those who are in the position to call the shots have been … gamblers with human lives.

THOUSANDS of people trooped out on last week Wednesday night expecting all their problems will be solved once they watched the Eagles play against Sierra Leone in Lagos. Their expectations failed woefully and the complaints have not ceased since then.

A NIGERIAN soldier on international peace keeping in Haiti went out looking for food to buy. There was a riot by hungry Haitians looking for food to eat. The angry mob killed the Nigerian. Four other Haitians are killed in the riots and the government falls.

Many lovers of Nigeria, indigenes and foreigners have advised Nigeria to get it right this time. At the approach of all elections in April, the assumption is that the elections would be conducted in such a transparent manner that the votes of the people should reflect absolutely their choices. But this is one aspect of the problems.

I HAD never really taken her serious as a politician, let alone presidential candidate. Not even that first time in April, 1993 when she vied along with Chief Moshood Abiola, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the presidential ticket of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), where she incidentally came third behind Abiola and Atiku.

Well…. Do you really want to know how things are? I will just set the Bible aside for a while and give you an honest answer from the bottom of my heart. My dear, things are bad, very bad. Nigeria has gone gaga and there appears to be no redemption in sight.