Influenza, we know, is a terrible health hazard. “Afluenza,” we might not have heard, is a malignant social disease that assaults the conscience of mankind. Here is a glimpse into how “Afluenza” gobbles up America.

The management of Federal, as well as states funds, since 1999 had been one great swindle perpetrated by all the governments without exception. But, I had long restricted myself to the Federal government because the unitary constitution handed to us by General Abdusalami Abubakar, on his way out of office, gave so much power to the Federal government.

Lamido Sanusi, the CBN Governor, has since withdrawn his earlier allegation that NNPC did not repatriate the sum of $49.8bn revenue from crude oil sales into the federation account. Subsequently, in contrast to the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s figure of $10.8, Sanusi later insisted that $12bn of crude revenues still remain unaccounted for!

If you are a member of the sports fraternity, occupying one post or the other, you must have been approached by the media, whose interest is stereotype, has been predictably stereotype at a time like this.

The end to the last long drawn-out university teachers’ strike means that students are set to return to school. On the basis of their experiences during the strike, they are likely to once again, face the reality of a wide gap between theory and practice. In the area of mass communication for instance, many students may have to grapple with the real meaning and nature of communication. Having learnt that written communication is generally superior to other forms such as oral communication and body language, they would not easily comprehend why the choice of writing as a channel of communication by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (Obj) with President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) elicited so much anger from some people. Did the many angry commentators read Obj’s letter about which they made pedestrian comments?