It can be safely assumed that the statement issued by General Azazi was cleared and approved by President Jonathan, Commander-In-Chief, C-I-C, of the Armed Forces of Nigeria.

The word ‘giant,’ according to Chambers 20th Century Dictionary, is “anything much above the usual size of its kind.” This is why we describe an extremely tall and huge person as a giant.

Several days after a friend and her daughter returned to the country from their vacation in Asia and in Europe, the latter was going to travel to the United States of America.

I think it was about a year ago that I did a piece advocating the necessity for the powers that be to incorporate and make it mandatory for everyone wishing to join any political party to undergo mental and psychological evaluation.

There was a time when Nigerians actually enjoyed politics. The rules were clear, though some of them were still being developed to keep up with the fast pace of our development as a nation.

Indeed, the saying that health is wealth is not an understatement. When you lead a very busy and hectic lifestyle, you tend to take a lot of things for granted, like our complete physical and mental well being. With each passing day, we wake up and get ready to face the daily grind of our different professions, family life etc.

President Goodluck Jonathan bared his fangs two days ago by announcing the unceremonious removal of the EFCC chairperson, Mrs. Farida Waziri in a manner that defeats the anti-corruption crusade. Under the universal rules governing anti-corruption, you cannot hire and fire anybody just like that; trying to use corruption to fight corruption, without stating the reason for the removal.

MARIA Cecilia Toledo de Schmillen, the glamorous opera singer wife of a former German Ambassador to Nigeria, established AMEMUSO (the Abuja Metropolitan Music Society) and AMEMUSITO (a subsidiary for youngsters) while she and her husband, Joachim, were based in the Federal Capital.

We usually start well. We usually proffer workable solutions but like an intractable terminal disease, everything we say to promote growth of our football fades away just as the euphoria of starting afresh dims.

NATURAL gas is in the news again—ushered in on a new wave-crest of conflict and controversy, arising from the Federal Government’s extension of the deadline for extracting firms to end gas flaring to December, 2013.