We spend so much time on marriage and relationships, but unfortunately many women do not realize that in relationships especially marriage, for you to be a total success, you must appreciate the fact that that man did not just appear on planet earth. Someone birthed him, someone raised him, he grew up with certain people, he probably has brothers and sisters.

I often wonder when I hear people say they have spent years looking for a job. This is because I believe that if nobody hires you, you should be able to engage yourself in productive activities. This is because God’s creative abilities reside in you, especially if you’re His child.

WOULD England be complaining if it won the bid for the 2018 World Cup? It is most unlikely the English would have said some of the things they are saying about FIFA, a body that they support to the hilt.

I HEAR that IBB has written to Dr Nwodo, the PDP Chairman, to say that he and many other members may resign from the PDP in protest if the party does not prevent President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting in next year’s election.

THERE are vital indicators that every occupation in this country ends up at the National Assembly. In our English language class, years ago, a student proclaimed: “When he slapped me, I saw a thousand stars”.

I CANNOT recall when and how I first met Edidem Bassey Ekpo Bassey II. He came across like an elder brother I have always known. Over the last quarter of a century, we met mostly in Lagos where he frequented, and in the last few years, in Abuja where I moved base.

AFTER going round and round the problem we find ourselves facing the root cause of the problem of democracy in Nigeria, namely: The objective of Nigeria’s constitutional politics.

THERE is a biblical saying that the bones shall rise again. One of the interesting events unfolding in Delta State as the electorate prepares for the rerun of the governorship race there is the emergence of a group that calls itself Delta State People’s Elders Council (DSPEC).

A University convocation lecturer is expected to make fundamental statements for the progress of society. Indeed, the occasion is not for generalized comments that add nothing to nothing. Rather, it is an apt opportunity to take a hard look at society, point to its most problematic areas and take a stand.

If you get to a seashore, every shell you don’t pick as it arrives goes back to the sea. So, you can be at
the shore and return home without a shell, just because you are not smart and sensitive enough to know how to grasp them.

It seems as if this year raced by. A most unusual year, good for some, awful for others but a year that mattered in many ways. It’s almost over and I have mixed feelings about the year; I can’t quite decide what mark to give it but all in all as years come it was rather interesting.

Monday, November 22, 2010 broke like any day. But differently for Abdul-Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola. The day broke with all expectation – will it or will it not be a good day? He had been working on his election for about three and half years. Will it end like in the last three times?

MR. Dimeji Bankole, the young speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is built like boxer. He’s also been known to have had at least one good brawl in office. Once, in fact, with my good friend and brother, the Honorable Independence Ogunewe, and this in the Chambers of the Federal House – and he did not pull his punches.

Sanusi is a pointer, and having performed the duty of pointing, it is left for the activists in our midst to push for the wrongs of indulgence to be righted. I think we have been indulging our organs of government by accepting that they can be judges in their own causes.

In most presidential systems only parliament constitutionally enjoys full legislative, quasi-judicial and quasi-executive powers and the combined effect of which either serves as an intoxicating force for bad (as is the case with us), or a sobering stimuli for good (as has never been with us).