WE run an executive driven government and this is why unconstitutional change of the executive government is followed by constitutional retooling of the political system. In this process, the legislative and judicial branches offer no barrier to unconstitutional change of government.

Throughout the House of Representatives and Senate Committee sessions on sports, there was a consensus that money was the root of all our football woes.

The economist, like anyone else, must concern himself with the ultimate aims of man”. Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924. The father of classical economics. 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.

In the first part of this article, which was published last week, we gave a brief narration of how Lamido Sanusi and his predecessors as Central Bank Governor brazenly discountenanced alternative advocacy that could redeem and positively transform our economy.

“Money makes everything legitimate; including bastards”.Jewish proverb. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 163).
And in no country is that statement truer than in Nigeria. Given loads and loads of cash, a certificate forger can be given an award, nay several awards, for integrity. It has happened before. It will happen again.

The extreme of opulence and want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in this country than in any other than I ever saw. -John Quincy Adams

A few years ago, a friend whose son and daughter-in-law had very good jobs in Europe, persuaded the couple to relocate to Nigeria, to come use their skills to help develop the country, and also raise their children on our soil so that they can get connected to their roots.

Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Ativie is the only woman in the Edo State House of Assembly. She is the Chairman, House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development, representing Uhunmwode Constituency. Cutting her political teeth in 1999 when she first contested for the State House of Assembly but had to step down twice for one of the party candidates in 1999 and 2003, Hon. Ativie went back to the drawing board in 2006, contested again in 2007 elections and she won the elections. But she had barely spent 18 months in office before losing her mandate when the tribunal nullified the elections.

For a nonreligious columnist like me, faith-based celebrations like Easter, id el malud, Christmas and so on provide a good opportunity for interrogating the fundamentals of religious worship.

The process of selecting the next President of the World Bank has reached its final stage as three nominated candidates are being interviewed in Washington DC, from tomorrow, Monday April 09, 2012. The candidates are Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala; Jose Antonio Ocampo, former finance minister of Colombia and currently a professor at Columbia University in New York and Dr. Jim Yong Kim, a South Korea-born, naturalised American who is the current President of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.