“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon

My class at the University of Jos was admitted to the university in the fall of 1985 as the University of Jos class of ‘85. It is thirty years from thence – and time seems to have galloped too quickly. WE arrived on campus in late September 1985, to the clamorous strains of the wind in the leaves, and to bracing mornings, in what would prove to be one of the coldest harmattans ever in Jos. I was eighteen, going to turn nineteen that December, and I had decided to come to Jos to study English, and not to follow in any of the steps towards which my father was nudging me.

For columnists, there has been an avalanche of important events begging for urgent attention. For once nobody can complain of mental block when issues such as Ministerial list, Saraki versus Tinubu, Code of Corruption, sorry Conduct Bureau, CCB; Party Supremacy; 2016 Budget; death of Alamieyeseigha etc are hot items on the national agenda.

Are you still keeping your faith strong?
I begin this column this week with reference to Pastor E.A. Adeboye’s Open Heavens of September 8, 2015 titled, “ Demons Hinder Destinies “.

These are not interesting times for members, or to say, the leadership of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom. They are alarmed at the uncomfortable position their party is in the run up to the next general elections some years down the line. In the past week, Labour has found itself in some “pretty” embarrassing situations over an unnecessary policy “U-turn” and “somersault” that has in no way helped the fortunes of the party.