Hi Readers! Seb and I have been having some heated talks about plans for Heather and Robert’s wedding. Seb wants the traditional wedding done as soon as possible; maybe before Christmas. I disagree. I feel it’s too soon.

The pilgrimage came up in the Holy Land of Mecca last Monday and its rites carry on, on Tuesday, it continued on Wednesday and Thursday. From then, the pilgrims have set to return to Nigeria.

I was in Edo State for most of last week. I had read a lot about what Governor Adams Oshiomhole was supposed to be doing in the state; also the many write-ups of the erstwhile ruling PDP that the man has been planting flowers, digging up streets and abandoning them and borrowing money that was not being accounted for. Seeing, they say, is believing.

I am not good at writing obituaries; especially when several hundred thousand people wish that somehow a dead organisation must wake up. But for the depositors of Savanah Bank Plc and Societe Generale the truth must be told in order to get them to come to terms with their misfortune and move on with their lives.

Nothing is as frightening or should be as feared as a mob; that gathering of people whose emotions have made them a mass of zombies! People no longer responsible for their actions as separate individuals but have become one entity without reason, consideration or caution.

There is no human group known in history that did not have a system of morality, that is, a set of rules and principles that stipulate conducts which are considered right, good and praiseworthy and those that are deemed to be wrong, bad and blameworthy.

Is the legislature democracy’s necessary incentive or has it become its veritable drag? This, against the backdrop of our current self-serving NASS, we shall explore in the next two weeks.

Some people imagine that the 2011elections would be successful because of the calibre of the present INEC. They have a point. But if Jega’s team follows the ‘jack of all trade’ posture of its predecessors, then we have cause to fear.

Hello, you guys and dolls out there!” called out this Radio anchorman cheerfully. “Our question of the evening is ‘’Should money matter in a relationship?’ Call us and tell us your mind on this very important matter. Tell us of your experiences. Tell us, if money has a role to play in a relationship. Okay? Ring this number …………….. Yeah! We’re all ears here in the studio”“

Last week, the Federal Government announced that it would establish forty new universities to complement the existing ones. The idea, according to government sources, is to expand access to public higher education given the increasing number of new applicants seeking university education in the country.

This is another season of joyful greetings. It’s festival time. It is an occasion of celebration for Muslims, though everyone joins in – Christians of all suasions, pagans of all denominations, atheists of every distinction, all identify in one way or the other with the festivities, at least, if not with the attendant observance which has several aspects; there are the purely religious which pleasantly flow into the social.

WHEN a daughter of humanity, Aung San Suu Kyi on November 14, walked out of house arrest after seven and half years imprisonment, not a few began a count down on the day the Myanmar junta may throw her back in detention.

MANY Nigerians believe and truly so, that we are a static nation because those politicians who are leading us are not the ones we would have chosen if given the opportunity of a free and fair elections.

THERE is a sense in which we must learn to extend our gratitude to the Falcons. Their victory in South Africa is a statement on commitment and passion.

MYANMAR, formerly known as Burma (its natives are still known as Burmese), has hit the headlines big-time in the past few days because Aung San Suu Kyi, the globally admired Burmese civil rights activist, has just been released by the ruling military junta, having spent l5 out of the past 2l years under house arrest.