For now, let me join millions of sports followers all over the country in wishing fare well to Eko 2012, the 18th National Sports Festival that was officially brought to an end yesterday.

The primary underlying principle in a social contract in a modern democratic dispensation is that of equality of all persons.

Instructively, the higher the degree of social inequity, the greater also will be the level of national instability, and the more restrained will be that nation’s economic growth trajectory. Consequently, it becomes inexplicable that some government policies and initiatives facilitate the prosperity of a favoured sub-group at the expense of the vast majority.

 
One of the questions I get asked a lot is how I know Jesus’ words in the bible are actually his words.  My answer is to ask my interrogators if they have actually read the words of Jesus.  If they say they have, I ask them to go and read them again.  Then I ask in return: “What kind of person do you know who talks like that?

One of the reasons why so much goes wrong in our public offices is because a public officer can hardly disagree with a person in authority let alone to challenge the ‘high-ups’ on any wrong doing. As a result, Nigerian authorities are often told not what is on ground but what they want to hear or what would please them.

“Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad.”-Seneca
Last week one of James Ibori’s accomplices,Bhadresh Gohil, sought to appeal against his conviction because a prominent newspaper revealed allegation against the Met police investigating the case of corruption in which Ibori, his wife and his solicitor are doing time in her majesty’s prisons.