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.

SIR Olaniwun Ajayi is turning 92 next April and anytime you sit around him you must learn one or two things. He has a gift of recollection and his memory is so agile for a man of his age