THIS piece is going to press 72 hours before the elections in Khartoum, in which Nigeria’s Ibrahim Galadima is a candidate. The concern here is not whether he wins or not. I am more bothered about the way we are, the way we elect to be and the consequences for Nigeria.

THE figures published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the “final” outcome of the recent registration exercise can at best be described as provisional. The final figures will only be known when they have been fed through the national data server to weed out the multiple and invalid registrations.

SOMETIMES, people want to engage in a war, which they cannot win. It is perhaps the case of sighting an antelope in the bush. You would want to pursue that fast-running animal for, you never can tell whether it has a bad leg. That is what the House of Representatives may be doing with a post-nomination President Jonathan.

HOUSE of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole boasted before a visiting delegation of German parliamentarians that the mass uprisings that buried the Tunisian and Egyptian governments cannot happen in Nigeria.

While the rest of the world and those Nigerians with the presence of mind to be romantic in these hard times were waking up to celebrate yet another Valentine’s Day, residents of Santos Estate in Akowonjo area of Lagos State came under the siege of armed robbers who took over their neighbourhood in the early hours of the morning of February 14.

THISDAY Thursday, February 10, 2011 in its Business World featured the role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in development and governance, policies and projects.

I am at the Khartoum International Stadium. The time is 19.05 Sudanese time, 17.05 Nigerian time.
The first quarter final match of the ongoing 2nd Orange African Nations Championship has just come to an end and with it the impressive run of an experimental South African side that defied form books to top a group that included Ghana , Niger and Zimbabwe .

Fancy this. Hosni Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years. He is forced by popular revolt to quit and is confined to his Sharm el Sheikh resort by the new military leaders – for his own safety.

Recently, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar published an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan on the depressive state of the Nigerian economy.

Hi Readers! The gals were enjoying themselves so much at the party for Heather, Robert and Milwan at Becky’s place that we didn’t leave, after all.

“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.