I have an exercise I always conduct in my pre-marriage class. I normally ask the participants if their parents are still alive. If the answer is yes, I will ask if their parents have health challenges, faulty or old cars, leaking roofs or broken walls or other problems the parents need money to solve. Normally, they also answer “yes”.

The Nigerian main nationalities represented by their delegates at the on going conference took brinkmanship to a new height last week. The North reportedly set the tone when it published its stance on thorny issues of the conference.

Last week, I expressed the view that Nigeria can only move forward in the near future if certain government functions are outsourced to top-class foreigners.

THAT Nigeria is a great country is axiomatic; that the Nigerian economy (with all its imperfections) is the greatest in Africa has now been widely accepted through the rebasing of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Nigeria is so great that it is often described as the ‘Giant of Africa‘

Last week, I made a case for Nigerians to support our armed forces as they confront the greatest security challenge facing the nation since the Nigerian Civil War. I illustrated my narrative with examples drawn from my years of encountering our valiant soldiers in far-flung areas of the world.