I was fascinated with the first interview the new Sports Minister granted the media when he resumed duties in Abuja.

Hi Readers! I got a little insight of the relationship between Seb and Belinda while
the three of us, along with Edmund, were paying a visit to Tayo’s mum in Abeokuta. Make no mistake – they are fond of each other, enjoy being together, and above all, understand each other well.

I want you to know that God desires that you live a healthy life. That is why your healing, health and wholeness are so important to Him! Your health is an important part of His redemptive plan for you, if you are His child. He wants you to be well!

I am filled with the “milk of human kindness” today, so, I am just presenting Cardinal Arogundade’s text message without comments. We had a lively discussion on the phone and we agreed to disagree. That is the beauty of democracy which “Third term to Life term”, as planned by Obasanjo, would have destroyed as Mubarak and Mugabe did. That the man could even think of the third term idea is horrible enough.

The truth is America’s claim to being ’God’s Own Country’ is logically in conflict with her being ’secular’ for the simple reason that we have been told to be ‘secular’ is to be ’concerned’ with the ‘profane’ in disregard of the ‘sacred’?

From media reports, it would appear that the National Judicial Council (NJC) has finally arrived at a verdict on the legal battle between Justice Isa Ayo Salami, President of the Court of Appeal (PCA) and Justice Aloysius Katsina- Alu, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). To be frank, the verdict took us by surprise considering the obvious design to delay it as is customary with cases in our courts.

Lagos has always been a trailblazer in many things. Maybe it has to do with the city being the seat of government for the nation for many decades, and even now, it remains the nation’s foremost commercial city, and the most cosmopolitan, catering for all ethnic groups and all religions. From time to time, since Lagos State was created, it has had what we call ‘action governors’, and enacted laws that are people-friendly.

Dawkins admits, for example, that Jesus’ doctrine of “turning the other cheek was” way ahead of his time, and anticipated Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King by two thousand years. Yet the family values Jesus exhibited sometimes were not worthy of emulation: his brusqueness to his mother and prescription that his disciples must abandon their families and everything else and follow him are exemplary in this regard (p. 284).

John Steinbeck is the award-winning author of the book that is the title of today’s column. To lovers of deep prose; he is a master craftsman whose words come to life in the twisted tale he tells so beautifully! To those not in the know; it is the tale of George and Lennie; two friends with a dream and a passion to work towards achieving that dream.

Wall Street took a shellacking last week. Shares fell and rose like the yo-yo. It was the uncertainty that could nearly kill the faint-hearted. But of course, the bold trader, the true gamblers – for all that betting on stocks and currency and futures is gambling – staked his lot. Much loss happened last week. The pit of the trading floors be it at the commodity exchange or the stock exchange was bloody.