FOR laughing out loud, a general problem is no problem. People just need to adapt and adjust. There has been a warning since last year about global economic problem in 2012 close to the depression in the 30s. Countries are making adjustments. Nigerians don’t pay attention to serious issues like they do to English soccer league and Brazilian hairs. It’s here!

THE political history of British postcolonial countries began with the reform of the capitalist British Empires. The strategic difference between these postcolonial countries is to be found in the nature of their independence politics and their independence politicians.

THE saying that in a democracy, people get the kind of government they want is true, after all. When on January 1, 2012, the federal government effected the removal of the subsidy on petrol, Nigerians waited with uncommon enthusiasm to embark on the nationwide “indefinite” strike called by organised Labour and civil society.

Last week, the focus was on the micro-economic impact of subsidy removal, in other words, its effect on individuals and the new choices the policy has thrown up for people whose lives have now become unsettled in many ways. This week, the attention turns to groups; specifically it addresses the low income group and the middle class.

It was from a friend who called me last week that I first heard the pleasant news of the end to the fuel subsidy imbroglio. The call would have ended within a minute if not for his rather curious comment that there was ‘no victor no vanquished’.

The concept of fair trade is a direct response to business practises that exploited the most disadvantaged people of the world while making the rich even richer. It was a more sophisticated version of the slave trade and it involved keeping people in sustained poverty while using them for cheap labour.

Nigerians would do anything to attract votes- including selling their mothers. And I am surprised that Babatunde was surprised. Most Nigerians politician would do the same.

I welcome you to a highly profitable time as you read my article today. From the beginning of this month, I started to help you set the pace for a business breakthrough and wonderful family life this year, by sharing with you the fact that you can use your thoughts or imagination to paint a glorious picture for your business, career or home.

To this Barbara Tuchmann, the leading authority on thirteenth and fourteenth century Europe had added: “History does not repeat itself; man does”. President Goodluck Jonathan and his government on one side and the Nigerian Labor movement as well as civil society groups had just taken the entire country through the same rigmarole we have experienced before each time a government had increased the price of petrol.

It is silly season again in Nigeria when make-believe prophets put on their most expensive sheep’s clothing to make state-of-the-nation proclamations. Every January, cacophonies of timber-and-calibre pastors broadcast their prophecies for the coming year. We look into our cry-stal balls and declare to lesser mere mortals God’s mind.