Have you just bought a new cell-phone and are wondering how to operate it? It is written. Simply check the manual. Have you just set up a new business and want to know how to get it registered? It is written. Are you a new creation in Christ but don’t know what being a new creation means? It is written. Where is it written? It is written in the scriptures.

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If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas, or in Latin, qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent. “He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas”

The mantra of change facing ordinary Nigerians and their throbbing desire for improved living conditions. But how many of those who vociferously chanted ‘change,’ especially APC leaders and their supporters across the country, actually understand what genuine social change is all about? What are the philosophical underpinnings and dimensions of change? Are all changes desirable – and if so what types of human beings or groups are best qualified to actualise it in a given society?

For years, pro-democracy activists sold the idea, indeed fought on the idea, that the democratic alternative was the only means by which a free people must organize and govern themselves. Freedom ultimately comes when we have a voice in the affairs of our community, and in the larger space of the nation through effective representation: the kind of representation in the Assembly of the people gathered to determine the ways and means of our national governance.