In the foaming maelstrom of unrelenting jostle for political advantage on every issue, by which Nigeria is consumed at the moment, no one may be adjudged to have got it right at any point in any endeavor. You are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

THERE is a general observation among our clubs and associations. When celebrating their anniversaries, they would buy a bag of rice, a bag of toilet tissues and 10 yam tubers, all costing some N10,000, as gift items meant for an orphanage.

TODAY, I want to address the hot media exchanges between officials of the Abia and Rivers State governments over the rescued school children from the den of kidnappers about a month ago.

WHEN I was growing up in Obalende on the Lagos Island, an enlarged, glassed photograph hung majestically from the wall. It was that of a beautiful young woman who sat like Queen Elizabeth II in her official portrait.

THE Vanguard Newspapers a few weeks ago carried a story about a specific effort to promote unity among Christians on the basis of the Lord’s prayer of John 17- the theme of which prayer is that all His disciples may be one.

THE news had hardly made the rounds when it was denied. Vice President, Namadi Sambo, had last week announced to an audience in far away Oxford that President Goodluck Jonathan had of his own volition elected to drop the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, all because he was sick of the tiring protocol associated with the title whenever he was introduced in public.

No rational person will decry communal debt accumulation if the proceeds were directly applied to the alleviation of critical areas of deprivation, such that the repayment terms and cost of servicing the loan pale into insignificance when compared with the social and welfare benefits which will be enjoyed by the community over time.

The day is Friday, November 29. Time now is 4pm. I am sitting in my room in Dundee’s Hotel in Lubumbashi, Congo DR. As member of the CAF delegation to the final of the CAF Orange Champion’s League, Africa’s premier club competition.

RETIRED policewoman and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Hajiya Farida Waziri, seems very confused but desperate for applause. How else would you view the recent publication of about 40 names of politicians currently being investigated and tried by the Commission, which were forwarded to the political parties to ensure they do not stand for election in 2011?

THROWN OUT’ was a newspaper’s headline, celebrating the Senate crushing of the executive bill sneakily passed to the National Assembly on the apron of the Jega-exigency which sought to reverse an electoral feat already achieved by the NASS-namely the barring of presidential battalion of aides as delegates to presidential party primaries!