The Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos. lies to the West of the island on the waterfront. The church magazine is thus appropriately named, By the Lagoon, for that is precisely where it is at the corner piece of Odunlami Street and “Ehin Igbeti,” to give the Marina its native name.

I AM not a fan of the PDP. I think it is a lousy party. But I will root for it tomorrow because it happens to have Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at its helm.

WE have spent years agonising over funding of sports. The illusion is that governments spend billions of Nigeria on sports. It is an illusion because the money is released late and the funding takes no proper account of sports timetables and the implications of the funding system.

THE science of Bioethics attempts to address itself to seeking solutions to new problems that emanate from solutions of existing ones. It is taking the new minimum wage law to realize afresh that at best, all we have is pseudo and lopsided federalism.

Yours Truly was conspicuously absent from duty last week for all the wrong reasons, I suppose. If you must know.

I DEY laugh o!” Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo used this expression to scorn his political enemies in the build-up to the general election. When on Friday November 6, 2010 his estranged former deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, emerged as the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) to face President Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, OBJ mocked him.

APPARENTLY exasperated by the shenanigans of the Sani Abacha junta to both extend the life of their regime and, as well, transform the head of the junta into a civilian president, assassinated Attorney General of the Federation and former Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, had chosen to sit back and watch or, as he had put it in earthy pidgin, ‘siddon look’ at how things would end with the Abacha political programme and its ‘five fingers of a leprous hand’, a clear reference to the five political parties that were hurriedly clobbered together to smoothen Abacha’s transformation agenda.

FROM my wife to my daughter, from my congregants to my good neighbour and elder brother, him that we call ToT, I have received the admonition.

Professor Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, made some boasts: that he would release full results of the elections within 48 hours; that he has the capacity to resist anyform of presure; that he would hold INEC officials responsible for court indictment.

All this is disturbing, considering the enormous amount of resources, both human and material, that have been mobilized to ensure that the 2011 elections are better than the previous ones. The blame lies squarely at the feet of desperate politicians and inept corrupt INEC officials, although we should not lose sight of the fact that the 1999 Constitution is flawed in many areas, thereby allowing morally crippled unpatriotic Nigerians to exploit the system for their own narrow egoistic interests.