“Advocacy for increased wages will perhaps remain eternal in the struggle of organised labour. Thus, expectedly the speeches made by Labour leaders all over the country last Friday, May 1st 2009 touched on the demand for a reasonable minimum wage that would give some measure of dignity to their rank and file. Indeed such demands are not peculiar to Nigerian workers as inflation generally gallops ahead of wage levels over time leaving income earners with lower purchasing power.

Hi Readers! Seb and I have been having some heated talks about plans for Heather and Robert’s wedding. Seb wants the traditional wedding done as soon as possible; maybe before Christmas. I disagree. I feel it’s too soon.

The pilgrimage came up in the Holy Land of Mecca last Monday and its rites carry on, on Tuesday, it continued on Wednesday and Thursday. From then, the pilgrims have set to return to Nigeria.

I was in Edo State for most of last week. I had read a lot about what Governor Adams Oshiomhole was supposed to be doing in the state; also the many write-ups of the erstwhile ruling PDP that the man has been planting flowers, digging up streets and abandoning them and borrowing money that was not being accounted for. Seeing, they say, is believing.

I am not good at writing obituaries; especially when several hundred thousand people wish that somehow a dead organisation must wake up. But for the depositors of Savanah Bank Plc and Societe Generale the truth must be told in order to get them to come to terms with their misfortune and move on with their lives.

Nothing is as frightening or should be as feared as a mob; that gathering of people whose emotions have made them a mass of zombies! People no longer responsible for their actions as separate individuals but have become one entity without reason, consideration or caution.

There is no human group known in history that did not have a system of morality, that is, a set of rules and principles that stipulate conducts which are considered right, good and praiseworthy and those that are deemed to be wrong, bad and blameworthy.

Is the legislature democracy’s necessary incentive or has it become its veritable drag? This, against the backdrop of our current self-serving NASS, we shall explore in the next two weeks.

Some people imagine that the 2011elections would be successful because of the calibre of the present INEC. They have a point. But if Jega’s team follows the ‘jack of all trade’ posture of its predecessors, then we have cause to fear.

Hello, you guys and dolls out there!” called out this Radio anchorman cheerfully. “Our question of the evening is ‘’Should money matter in a relationship?’ Call us and tell us your mind on this very important matter. Tell us of your experiences. Tell us, if money has a role to play in a relationship. Okay? Ring this number …………….. Yeah! We’re all ears here in the studio”“