I WOULD not normally have elevated my personal matter to a subject of discourse, except that in my distraught situation last week, the title ‘My Sickled-cell Anemic daughter’ had inevitably become a last ditch effort, at least to pen down something in the circumstance.

THE concept of social mobility is one I have fervently discussed and advocated for in this column: place matters, the neighbourhood where one is born, where one lives, matters disproportionately. As a social sciences and humanities student, this makes my blood boil: that a person is not judged based on their individual talent but rather, sees said talent killed or remaining dormant due to factors beyond his or her control, is the primary injustice done to Nigerians which ensures that neither the brightest nor the best make it into office or positions of authority in Nigeria.

THE best period to know an individual’s true character is in times of crisis. Anybody can lay claim to being anything when all is well but when the tide turns only then is true character reflected. It is for this reason I wonder what it would be like to conduct a patriotism test on Nigerians in this time of economic crisis, the worst in about three decades.

I AM somewhat surprised by Mr. Nnanna’s rebuttal of my piece on the Origins of Nigerians. I normally expect criticism and even abuse to some of my views but his answer seems unfortunately to be something he wanted to say and was looking for an opportunity to do so.

FOR those who have been nursing hope that our country would get out of recession when government rolls out plans to combat the scourge,this may just be the time to get their sackcloth if the retreat that took place in Abuja last week is all that was in the offing.