I often feel as if we, in Nigeria, are stuck in a debtor’s prison. Before many of us are even born, to a certain extent, we owe debts which we must repay. Our very lives and livelihoods we often owe to other people who have the unequivocal power to decide, much like gods, who will be allowed to go further, who will prosper and who won’t based on arbitrary rules. This all begins because individualism is not acceptable in the Nigerian society.

ON Friday May 29, our so-called Democracy Day (October 1 to me), I was at Tafawa Balewa Square to witness the swearing-in of Mr Akinwunmin Ambode as the 14th governor of Lagos State. I went with a sizable number of fellow old students of Federal Government College, Warri, Ambode’s alma mater, equally delighted to mark the ascension of a product of the unity schools to the governance of the most cosmopolitan and unifying city in a country cleft to the marrow by tribal sentiments and the atavistic fears they stir.

The economic situation in any given country could either make or mar your business. For the growth and well being of any business, the state of the economy determines the financial state of families and their willingness to spend on wants as well as their basic needs. This in turn would lead to either an increase or decrease in the demand for cake and pastries.

When you think about international soccer, the United States of America hardly crosses your mind. If there is a 4th world in global soccer, the U.S. may even be classified in that group.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is the second returnee president of Nigeria. The first man to experience this uncommon opportunity was former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He came in with two major mindsets, which helped in no small measure in rendering his second coming as a great waste.