I no talk am? Barely had her body been lowered into the grave that her erstwhile ‘husband’ who reportedly stormed out of the funeral ceremony because the sitting arrangements were not to his liking wants to publish a tell all book about Whitney… low-life! Once again, a o ni ba olori buruku pade! Enough said.

Getting ready to board my flight to the United Kingdom last week, I struck up a conversation with a comedian friend about the times when we were a lot younger, and some of the things I recalled prompted him to ask for my age which I told him. He did not believe me, but the names of things I mentioned and recalled proved that indeed, they were before his time.

In an intelligent reaction to my article last week in this column titled: IS THE BREAK UP OF THIS COUNTRY INEVITABLE?, a reader, Mr. John A of Onitsha asked some pertinent questions on the likely break-up of the country; he would like to know the number of sovereign states; the agitators; the front runners or the stakeholders of these sovereign states.

IF you ever need to conceal anyone from public view, and render them socially inconspicuous, there could hardly be a better hiding place than among the nation’s trawler fishermen. They are the senior, just as hidden brother of their sole trader brothers. My father and even the President were once fishermen.

LAST week, I said that President Jonathan should avoid caving in to demands for a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, largely because I believe that a massive talking shop at which religious and ethnic grievances are aired will generate more heat than light and possibly lead to the complete collapse of Nigeria.

MORE than 51 years after its nominal independence, Nigeria is still where it has always been. Do you want to ruin your appetite? Then, why not attempt carrying Nigeria’s problems on your head? The wiser ones have long learned to leave Nigeria’s load at the shoulder level, so that if it got too heavy, they could just throw it away.

FOR three days, last week, Vintage Press, the publishers of Bola Tinubu’s THE NATION newspapers, hosted a Legislative Summit on Regional Integration, in Ibadan, regional capital of the old Western Region of Nigeria. It brought legislators from the states that make up the Southwest of today’s Nigeria.

HURRICANE Lagos”. That was the creative alias Vanguard Newspapers entitled its main photograph of the destruction caused by a freak storm that hit the nation’s commercial capital in its Tuesday, February 14, 2012 issue. How apt!

THE head of Nigeria’s Central Bank, the equivalent of the US’s Federal Reserve or the UK’s Bank of England is designated, governor. Despite his immense powers over the country’s financial sector, the Governor of the Central Bank is perhaps the only Nigerian official called governor but whose responsibilities are limited to the financial sector.

A GROUP which gave itself the title of Eminent National Leaders of Thought met a few days under the umbrella of a forum called National Summit Group with suspicious official support at the expensive Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Lagos.