In the case of sudden death, which can go either way, it could be you or him, everything depends on God. Whatever I have as my personal savings is what I plan to fall back on in case of any accidental eventualities. You need to see what widows go through in some cultures to know just a little of what I am talking about. Once a man dies, it is assumed that the wife must have something to do with it because she has something to gain from his death.

In this essay, I argue that Christmas has become a useless social fad which should be allowed to die out because it has progressively degenerated into a period for indulging and celebrating the grossest attributes of the human species – greed, avarice, licentious living, debauchery and spiritual self-abnegation.

The structures we have would win for us a gold medal if having them was all that was needed to judge them. America does not even have them – huge cars and convoys for public officers and their dependants; full time pay for all cadres of public officers for no jobs done; billions sunk into buying aircraft for use of heads of the organs of government.

For those who enjoy arguments, I am sure they will bring up the argument of one man who was believed to be an heretic when he thought the earth was round while others thought it was flat. I am not discussing basics of science or earth shaking theories in evolution or even technology, what I am concerned with is the fact that a lot of people are depressed and lonely.

James Ibori’s case which has been turned into a charade can serve as proxy for others pending in the courts. This particular case has demonstrated, as no other, how those expensive lawyers, Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, and judges have conspired to delay justice. Granted, the great Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, had pronounced that, “A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes”.

Is there any way that we women can ‘corner’ this weeks article and prevent the men from reading it since we have all discovered this column has most men’s favorite column. This week, I really want to address women.

It is somewhat curious that the initial stages of the project attracted attention in the facelift they afforded the waterfront of the city, the Marina. The natives call that part of Lagos, “Ehin’gbeti’, and follow it up with the popular saw, “B’oju o ba ti Ehin’gbeti, oju o ni t’Eko”.

What on paper looks so simple to do, in respect of the President’s health and governance of Nigeria has assumed a proportion greater than a herculean task for otherwise intelligent politicians of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP.

With a legacy interlaced with juicy off chamber exploits, the third term Senator is no push over and his decampment to the PDP is said to be in preparation for a more robust fourth term in the Senate from 2015

Perhaps one of the most important topics that tend to touch the minds of local politicians of all shades this year is amendment to the 1999 Constitution which the country is operating now. Politicians talk glibly about true federalism which reminds us of pre-Independence era. The three regions – North, East and West – each had its own Constitution, had its own civil service and its own judiciary.

AMINATOU Haidar is the mother of two sons. She was living with her family in Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony occupied by Morocco.

By Donu Kogbara NIGERIANS have always complained bitterly about the countless inadequacies of their country and multiple shortcomings of their leaders. But the complaints have been even more embittered than usual ever since 2009 dawned nearly 12 months ago because this has been a particularly bad year for almost everyone. Every nation contains exceptions to […]

By Ikeddy Isiguzo THOSE in the group dubbed Elders of the Nigeria Olympic Committee deserve commendation for stopping the proposed NOC elections from holding in Dutse, Jigawa State last Wednesday. Fears that the elections would have finally buried the NOC were real. The titanic contest between the Minister of Sports/Chairman of the National Sports Commission, […]

Thanks to Professor Chinua Achebe, whose timely interventions in Nigeria’s history, whether they are real or out of his pithy fictions, will always remain signal moments in the destiny of that country.

A few weeks after the ex-militants reported to camp, it became obvious that Nigeria would always be Nigeria, even when the most serious issues that threaten the survival of Nigeria is involved.