To Marshall’s observation, another economist had added that anything that does not make economic sense [to most people concerned] has no chance of succeeding. The proposal by the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, to issue new licence plates nationwide at, what most Nigerians consider, unreasonable fees, is a case study in how not to introduce change.

It may not be enough to explain that Sovereign Wealth Fund is similar to personal or family savings because the majority of our poverty stricken citizens, who live on the proverbial $2 a day have never been blessed with surplus income to permit the luxury of savings for the basic need of food for more than a day or two at any one time!

A few decades ago when the United Nations was sensitized on the global plight of women by our western sisters, it was decided that the most effective way of resolving the issue was to get governments around the world to be committed to uplifting the status of the women in their domain.

Freedom is one of the most talked about attainments or achievements in the history of man. It presupposes that at one point in time everyone goes through some form of captivity. We can be held captive by all sorts of situations and limitations and yearning for freedom is a goal most ideal.

HE personally authorized the disbursement of N50m for 109 senators then, as well as other sums of money, which amounted to an excess of N8b to pass the third term bill into law”.

This past week, a group from the South-South political zone of Nigeria made public its endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan for re-election in 2015. It is all in the larger scheme of things of course, but not unexpectedly, various reactions, some subtle, some more blatant, have accompanied the endorsement from this group purporting to be speaking for the South-South.

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Harold R. McAlindon

Logically speaking, it is quite possible that the events around which the gospels’ narratives were woven actually did not take place or that the stories are so garbled it is impossible to separate fiction from fact.

The Military in Mali was no doubt living in the past when on March 21, 2012, it imagined that if it effected a change in its nation’s government, civilians would once again be as gullible as before to rejoice over it. That didn’t happen and is not likely to happen any more in any part of Africa as everyone now appears to know that government by the gun is anachronistic.

Through the Fate Foundation where she is the Executive Director, Mrs.Osayi Alile-Oruene is unleashing her passion- training young people to be successful entrepreneurs , as a way of reducing the ever increasing number of job-seekers in a society where there are very limited jobs. Vista Woman engaged her in a chat recently.