The world is a global village; its size and distance less of a hindrance to communication and interaction. The conquering of the air for flight and sea for voyages began the downsizing of the vast geographical entity that is the earth.

I was still mentally rummaging for a subject to write about when I saw Disu Kamor’s ‘Palestine statehood: Significance of Nigeria’s vote’ (‘Peoples Daily’, Monday, Oct 3, 2011). It made more than ‘interesting reading’, and I thought it deserves a place on my page this week.

One of the immanent genetic defects that have stunted the growth of Nigeria was the duplicitous political inequality between the North and the South created by the departing British administrators.

In Journalism, sign language can, once a while, be more expressive than written communication. Here, I remember a famous cartoon some years back which figuratively requested the weather man to tell us point blank if it would rain the next day so that while going to work we could take our umbrellas with us.

We had been having that frustrating period of half-current electricity supply for a couple of weeks, and were trying to decide whether it wasn’t better for our sight and appliances to abandon PHCN and switch to a generator.

In March 1964 (not 1947), Mallam Bashari Umaru introduced a bill in the Northern House to “revoke forthwith all certificates of occupancy in the hands of the Ibos resident in the North” to which the Northern Minister for Lands and Survey, Mr. Ibrahim Musa Dagash responded:“I would like to assure members that having heard their demands about Ibos holding land in Northern Nigeria, my ministry will do all it can to see that the demands of members are met. How to do it, when to do it, all this should not be disclosed.”

Very big thank you for touching on today’s youth and attitude to education. Some parents even arrange expo and bribe for invigilators to make their wards pass school certificate and JAMB. We are indeed doomed.

When October 1st came I nearly did not know. And it was supposed to be the anniversary of the independence of Nigeria. It was supposed to be the day when we dropped the shackles of whatever held us down.

Just as I was about putting pen on paper to put down my thoughts for this weekend, I saw screaming headlines about the plan by Federal Government to remove the much-talked about fuel subsidy which has dragged on for so long. Reactions to the subsidy removal proposal have been expectedly interesting; each one threatening hails and brim tones, the usual Nigerian way.

Pastor Tunde Bakare, for whom I still cherish a lot of fondness despite his recent foolhardy foray into party politics, found some comfort last year when Nigeria was fifty, in the fact that the nation had remained together in the face of all odds. I have often wondered how much profit was in the mere fact that we could indeed be said to have stayed together as one country.