Farouk Lawan, you know the House of Representatives Subsidy Probe panel Chairman (who since last week, has been stripped off his post). Please keep up, because it is going to get rather messy. Last week, the member of the House of Representatives was accused by Otedola that Lawan and the ad hoc committee’s secretary, Boniface Emenalo, collected $120,000 on Lawan’s behalf.

Last Tuesday, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Nnamidi Okorie Affiah, reportedly laid to rest the speculations making the rounds that corps members serving in Edo State had been compromised to work for the incumbent Governor.

“What sort of people do they think we are?” Sir Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II, in reply to Hitler’s demand for the British to surrender while under German bombardment.

There are many people today across the world who earn their living as professional naijaskeptics. These people drum up and sustain the idea of Nigeria as an impossible creation, a place existing between Dantesque purgatory and hell. Nothing good will ever come out of Nigeria, and for them, the greatest good will come only with the collapse of Nigeria as a sovereign nation.

For some time, I had this feeling that the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (M.A.N.), which is the mouth-piece of manufacturers in Nigeria, had stopped functioning, since I’ve not been reading of its reactions to government’s policies regarding the production sector in this country.