The conversation between Kola and I had been on for about half an hour when his son, Afolabi, entered to announce that he was ready to travel to Lagos, enroute a West African country to resume his summer school.

It has been used often to conjure the spectre of discrimination to attract sympathy for a just claim and, at times, for an unmerited advantage. One can hardly fault that stance though, since self-love is hardly as unprofitable as self-neglect.

Everyone who has been with Woman to Women for a while know that we have dealt with this issue. Any woman knows that it is so wrong to be in a marriage and to be having sex outside that marriage. It is an abomination. Every religion is against it. Womanhood is so special.

THE French in 1789 carried out what can be termed a universal revolution. It declared in its violent overthrow of the monarchy that all “men are born free and remain free and equal in rights”. Human beings, the revolution declared, can do anything with their freedom, provided they respect the liberty of others. In proclaiming freedom, liberty and equality for the human race, the French revolutionaries affirmed that resistance to oppression is legitimate.

LAST week, I said that most of the Niger Deltans I know are anxiously hanging all of their hopes on President Goodluck Jonathan, that Jonathan reminds me of an only child who is the sole focus of his parents’ ambitions and that I sometimes pity Jonathan because it isn’t easy to be under so much pressure.

THE rigging of elections is a more complex operation than meets the ordinary, untutored eye. The objective of rigging election is to ensure the processes are artificially orchestrated to result in the emergence of a particular, premeditated individual as the winner.

He said the journalists who ask Babangida such simple and historically correct questions are “being lazy scholars”.
Yet his claimed ‘scholarship’ did not in any way attempt an answer, rather he makes the bizarre submission that “rather than condemn in such wholesale manner the annulment, we should also be able to commend the man who made the election to be credible in the first place”.

Check out his visit to the PDP office last week and others like that. Jonathan on the other hand has been and seems determined to remain a very good student of the IBB school, at least with regards to managing his emotions. Looking then at the manner the PDP has handled questions of the presidential contest within the party so far, one would be forgiven to think Nigerian politics has entered a new era of tolerance.

THIS particular intervention in Nigerian Christian political practices is precipitated by the recent election of the head of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).

LAST week, I praised Ima Niboro, the President’s Special Advisor on Media and Publicity, for his writing skills and eloquence. But I also complained about the fact that I and many other journalists have felt frustrated by his failure to respond to our polite requests for advice, information and official statements.

THEY are two worlds apart: Ibadan in Nigeria and New York, United States. Both have tales of (in)sanity, intolerance and cries of revenge rather than rationality or forgiveness. Humanity has immense propensities towards religious blow-outs ignited by the two dominant religions: Christianity and Islam.

I was in the Caribbeans when the President, Goodluck Jonathan landed Washington and was accosted by the good old Amanpour and was very alarmed when the aggressive lady nearly croossed her lines and her legs in reaching for the calves of our dear President

I HAVE watched the unfolding race for the presidency with a measure of amusement at what I consider some lack of seriousness in the build-ups among the contenders. Let me start with the president, the sole Southern candidate, because we now know for sure he will run.

NOW and again, I come across old friends who ask how I cope with being committed to the Nigerian project for so long even as things degenerate from one generation to another.

Clearly this was not the case, and so many people had to pay for it with their life. Even at that, the Police are still not taking responsibility for anything. Their spokesperson in Lagos, Frank Mba, has been telling sceptical Nigerians that their investigations have so far shown no police man put up a road block at the point the accident occurred.