SANUSI Lamido Sanusi, governor of Nigeria’s Central Bank, revels in controversy- or so it appears. From one controversial step to another Sanusi luxuriates in his loudmouth image. But if sometimes Sanusi seems mad, in manner of speaking, there is no doubt method to his madness

ALL literature is ideological, so says Karin Barber in one of her ever cerebral and insightful works on Yoruba literature.

WHAT’S left of their relationship when a political son takes on his father in public and tries to show he is not what he claims to be after all? Wahala! That appears to me to be the direction things are going with President Goodluck Jonathan’s criticism of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s handling of the Odi and Zaki Biam episodes in the early months of the latter’s administration.

THE bad drama starring Malam Nuhu Ribadu and Mr. Steve Orosanye that played to a full Aso Rock audience when the Ribadu Task Force presented its report has come and gone but comments are still being made by a larger Nigerian audience that viewed the ‘home video’ posted on the internets in different parts of the world.

EVEN if it still continues with its destruction of properties and killings in different parts of the North in a mindless campaign of terror that is bound to end in its defeat, there is every indication that the terrorist group that has been hiding under the veneer of religion and avowed hatred of Western civilisation to commit unspeakable atrocities is running out of steam.

EVER since he emerged governor of Lagos State in 2007, Raji Fashola has, arguably, had more favourable press than any other governor in Nigeria. He is certainly one Nigerian politician whose performance in office has not gone unremarked and in very favourable light too.

THINGS seem to be happening in our country at such pace as makes it difficult to keep track of them all. The best one can do is to select from a wide range of issues and hope that what one doesn’t see others would see.

AFTER their first debate that focused on sundry issues, especially the economy, about three weeks ago and the second town hall-style debate that featured undecided voters asking probing questions of them, the third presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would have been more than a day and a half over by the time you’re reading this. In the first encounter, the Republican candidate was adjudged winner by the American public led by the media.

IT’s been three full months since Comrade Adams Oshiomole was returned to government house in Benin. In the build-up to the July 14 election, it was as if the contest for the governor’s sit could have gone in the direction of either of the two dominant parties, the ACN and the PDP, in the state.

THE casualty figures continue to hover between 40 and 50 (possibly more), but there is no doubt that last week’s killings in Mubi, the second largest town in Adamawa State, was by any standard a massacre.

It’s been a week since Saudi authorities deported nearly 170 pilgrims, aside many more that had earlier been kept in camps, back to the country for no other reason than that they were women. For that is what the whole episode boils down to: The unequal treatment of people on account of their sex.

IN the last few weeks since what I here call Central Bank of the Few under Lamido Sanusi announced its intention to introduce N5,000 bill into the economy, Nigerians have variously cajoled, begged, pleaded with and even threatened the Bank and its management against the planned introduction.

As for labelling critics of the President, so-called pestle-wielding cynics, self-appointed activists, idle/idling twittering children of anger distracted by social media- those Abati now see as confused alaseju (busybodies)- as for labelling this group of Nigerians who might in the long run turn out to be Jonathan’s best friends, alaseju, Dr. Abati got it wrong.

LET’S just say last week was the week of choice for President Goodluck Jonathan and his media team to take on their critics, real or imagined. The President’s remark that he was the most criticised president was prime news.

JUST when you think this government will quit its inanities and get hold of itself, it comes up with another foolishness that leaves you convinced that it’s yet to know in what direction it wants to go.