There was a time when music was very much a part of the peoples’ lives in Lagos. I guess it very much still is. Since people dance to music and there is still a lot of dancing going on, the sound of music is still heard all over the place.

I do not know where this belief germinated from, that the Presidency is playing into my proposals. “Grandiose Delusion!” I am not the only deluded person in my generation but ‘am certainly in the centre of it all because my edition of the general delusion belongs to the highest of all: grandiose … it is elegant, sublime and with a generous splash of gusto.

Last week the Greeks in a referendum overwhelmingly voted ‘’NO’’ giving their Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, a stronger mandate to negotiate with their creditors against further austerity measures.

When an eternally genial , self effacing , peace- loving man like Bisi Akande fits in anger then so much has gone wrong. Genuine peace makers are scarce. Mr president , Akande must be encouraged to remain one.

Mama T. was 47, a grandmother, when she suddenly felt very sick one morning. She tried the usual self-medication that many of us normally start with. She did not get better and had to see her personal physician, who ran a series of test–malaria, typhoid, infections, etc–but they were either negative or insignificant. Finally, the doctor suggested the unthinkable: a pregnancy test. “Are you out of your mind? I’m 47 and my last child is 14,” she screamed. But the physician insisted because “there is no harm in trying.”