We’ve been advised not to act on every forwarded mail we get on the internet, as our responses are closely monitored by the initiators, so that they can add more e-mail addresses to their mailing list for SPAM mail, which in most cases is commercial.

They view the North from the prism that shows us its indolent elite or rulers. There are many truths in the broad canvas of images, but there are also many norths as there are many souths. Nigeria is made of people – complex and varied: kind, cruel, greedy, industrious; the zealot and the one of measured faith.

As usual, his supporters wanted to know if there was something personal in my remarks. They could not, of course, accuse me of tribalism that time. Yar’Adua/Jonathan followed with the unwieldy seven-point agenda; I counseled three – power, roads and resolution of the Niger Delta conflict for the first term and others for the second –if ever there was a second.

The Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, electronic media owners, was not a party to the suit. Other media bodies, as members of the Nigerian Press Organisation, were also not there. Those who initiated the suit in 1999 were not officers of the Nigerian Press Organisation (that is, the NPAN, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, and the Nigeria Union of Journalists) outside of Ismaila Isa Funtua, publisher of the rested Democrat who was then president of the NPAN.

The world is in a very terrible state. Tune in your radio, all you hear is disaster, crisis and conflict everywhere. Mankind is gasping, and the fear is palpable that this world may no longer be saved. We are well into the grips of the end-times prophetic collapse.

Maybe one should also briefly touch on the “encounter on the bridge” in Ogun State recently. There we saw a State Governor wantonly refer in derogatory terms to no less than the Speaker of the House of Representatives. He called the “fourth gentleman on the realm” his “Aburo” which in Yoruba means a younger relation, but can be derogatorily applied to connote inferiority or even inconsequentiality.

PEOPLE may not fully realize the importance of what the Falconets, our U-20 female football team did in Germany . The loss to the Germans in Sunday’s final does not in any way diminish the achievement of the team that has made the point that Africa has a future in female football one area Nigeria has dominated in the continent without making much impact on the global stage.

THE veil, the Arab cultural wear of burqas and niqabs that has become identified with Islam is being hoisted to be guillotined not just by the French who are historical professionals in the guillotine business, but also by a rare mixture of European, Arab and Islamic countries.

THE issue of zoning: to be or not to be, is now being taken away from the discussion or debate level. The two sides to the dispute: the South-South and the conservative section of the Northern political class, are now sabre-rattling. They are mobilising their instruments of intimidation with a view to coercing the nation to succumb to their respective demands.

Both men claim to be the Visitor to the university, and in that capacity, appointed two different Vice Chancellors for the same institution. While Akala sacked the incumbent VC, Professor Benjamin Adeleke five months before the expiration of his tenure and imposed his own VC, Oyinlola sacked the Governing Board And imposed the Deputy VC, Professor J O Ojediran , in practical terms, as sole administrator.