The Central Bank of Nigeria and its agents have been very active, as should be expected, in promoting the merits of the proposed N5000 note. To this end, the apex bank also set out to dispel what it alleges to be disinformation regarding the proposed exercise.

Last Saturday was indeed a busy one for Nigerian football with the country involved in three key matches. First to kick off was the third place match in the FIFA U-20 Women World cup and the Falconets lost 1-2 to Japan.

To this, Napoleon Bonaparte, I769-I82, added, “An army marches on its stomach”. Either as civilians or as uniformed men and women, Nigerians are heading for the worst food crisis in over hundred years. Few people alive in this country today have never experienced such deprivation as is now becoming increasingly imminent; not only in Nigeria, but globally as well.

I READ a very interesting interview that Leadership Newspaper’s Midat Joseph had with retired Air Vice Marshall Muhammadu Yahaya published in the paper’s online edition on September 2, 2012, and I decided to discuss it with you today.

It is priceless when God calls a nonentity to ministry. It is especially marvellous when he validates this with infallible signs.