Inadequate power supply has choked the development and growth of Nigeria’s economy, particularly in the last two decades. The Punch Newspapers editorial of 22/3/2010 explicitly paints this reality. That editorial specifically notes that “Poor power supply has been at the heart of the nation’s wobbly manufacturing sector whose capacity utilization has today plunged to 29 per cent.

I do not believe last week’s article on the silence of other sports in the country was an attack.

This article could just as well have been written under the title IS JOURNALISM A PROFESSION? Since our return to civil rule in 1999, the rapid turnover of editors, columnists and reporters, after every election points to the fact that in Nigeria, unlike most of the advanced countries, media work is seen by journalists as a mere stepping stone to something else – not a career in itself.

What was Lai Mohammed’s response to the accusation that the ACN had, with ethno-regional bias, betrayed its presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, by voting a non-performing, manifestly retrogressive party, the PDP?: “It is simply unimaginable and highly incongruous that a ‘progressive’ party like the ACN will work for the victory of the PDP which has put Nigeria in reverse gear in the past 12 years”.

As citizens of an African country in the Third world, Nigerians should commend themselves on their ability to hold the recent general elections into almost all offices, all over the country. This may seem silly, but we know that there are countries where you dare not think of a change in governance, let alone insist on it. So, it is to our credit that we hold elections at the stipulated times these days.

Chapter 8 reflects the author’s attempt to answer the question, “How did the belief arise that Jesus had died on the cross and had ascended into Heaven?” He declares that Paul (formerly known as Saul), gave a new direction to Christianity by introducing new elements that were not part of what Jesus himself taught his disciples.

When social scientists of the Elite theory persuasion contend that society can best be understood through the preferences of the wealthy and privileged class, they merely underscore the fact that other groups particularly the masses are inconsequential. According to one of them-Thomas Dye-the masses of the population are inept, docile, dormant and always seeking direction and guidance.

The Akirogun of Egba sounded like a small boy when he called me the other day. He sounded excited, animated like a boy who has just been given a new toy. Segun Osoba told me Obasanjo had finally owned up to a lot of things: namely about himself and Gbenga Daniel, the outgoing governor of Ogun State.

The boys celebrated to high heavens when their officials handed them a gold wrist watch each. They were junior players and in many parts of the world it is wrong to reward junior players with monetary incentives. In fact, in tennis the International Tennis Federation rules against cash prizes in junior events.

MANY of you will be aware that Prince William, son of the late Princess Diana and grandson of the British Queen, Elizabeth, got married last Friday…to Kate Middleton, a girl from a fairly ordinary background whom he met at the university.