Last Saturday’s friendly match had hardly ended when I had calls and text messages from colleagues asking for my opinion on what they believed was “ same of the same”

Hi Readers! As we sat waiting for the others to join us in the restaurant, I brought up again the issue of entering through the kitchen and what other diners might have been thinking as they saw us access the dining area from there. I told Tayo that ladies of class like us shouldn’t have done such a thing.

And for Soludo, security could only be guaranteed by creating banks which were “too big to fail.” Like the author of the great ship, called Titanic whose builder boasted that “even God cannot sink it,” Soludo, as we had noted earlier, got his wish.

Parenthetically, calculate the successive unsolicited and unrepaid CBN loans to the three tiers of government over the years and it becomes clear that Nigeria in reality is several times more indebted than Greece.

The number of brilliant people motivated by the pure love of knowledge to teach in universities has reduced considerably, one of the reasons being that the university system is steadily losing its mystique as a centre for academic excellence.

Too much inequality can harm the efficient operation of an economy…excessive inequality can have two perverse consequences: first, the very wealthy lobby for favours. Contracts and bailouts that distort markets; second growing inequality undermines the ability of the poorest to invest in their own education…These factors mean that high inequality can generate further high inequality and eventually poor economic growth.

Unionism has no doubt taken a firm root in Nigeria as every profession, occupation and vocation in the country now wears a well organized labour stance.

Pandora, the first woman in Greek mythology was given a box; a box that contained the world’s evil, when she opened it, evil escaped into the world and the only item left in the box was HOPE.

For the first time ever on this page, the PHCN is being praised for improved performance by some readers. My piece was on how PHCN staff went to an area where there had been no electricity supply for several days, to check their pre-paid meters, receipts, and needed the consumer’s torch to be able to carry out their assignment.

Last week, I showed you the importance of God’s Word. I told you that the Word of God is the antidote to hardship, frustration and stagnation.