ALL through last week the Peoples Democratic Party was in the news. This had been the case for two weeks running when the Party began its primaries into various offices in its fold from the local, through state to the federal levels. While the gubernatorial primaries were held about two weeks ago, it was the turn of the presidential aspirants to flex muscles against one another last week.

Finance Minister, Olusegun Aganga confirmed to an audience of financial correspondents and experts last week that the government will float a $500m Eurobond before the end of January 2011.

Last year, Nigerian football was at the cross roads.Good will set in, court cases were vacated, peace was expected to reign. Never again, the rancor, acrimony, inefficiency and corruption that bedeviled the sport we hold so dear.
This year, we were expected to take a decision, move forward, to the promised land.

Hi Readers! Based on what nanny had told me, I did my best to avoid Seb too, so that peace can reign. I couldn’t trust myself not to bring up the registry wedding issue if I got him on my own. I was successful in this for a day or so, but when my siblings arrived from down south, that changed immediately.

Primaries of the parties will have peaked by the end of this week. It was a rehashed of the parties. From Port Harcourt to Kaura Namoda; from Lagos to Maiduguri there were uprisings: in Lagos and, in Abeokuta; in Ibadan and Enugu.

Marlow finished that sentence in a way I can’t. But, as Nigerians again are now at dagger’s drawn over the recent election in Delta State and the first full election to be conducted under Professor Attahiru Jega, my heart bled. Ordinarily, the outcome should have provided another opportunity to say “I told you so.” But, the catastrophe that has befallen our nation far outweighs any feeling of triumph.

Recently, in this column, I wrote ‘Zoning: Where Justice Gumi Got it Wrong’ and, in which, in my lay opinion, I differed with the FCT High Court Chief Judge’s December 1, 2010, ruling on PDP’s zoning arrangement.

Human beings in contemporary societies, like no other period in history, are so preoccupied with the rat race for material comfort that they tend to forget those simple things that make human life humane.

No show is a term used by the airline industry to describe a passenger who has booked and paid for a flight but just didn’t show up. Airlines tend to come down heavily on such passengers and charge a penalty fee or even refuse to rebook and refund such fares!

Our problem in this country is that the men think they know it all, and are more qualified to rule than the women are,” declared Mrs. Z. at a recent seminar organised to encourage women to take more active part in politics.