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.

JIHAD as an Islamic concept must be one of the most misunderstood- all thanks to those practitioners of a muscular form of Islam who believe the one and only way to propagate their religion is through the sword.

THE strikes by terrorists in Northern Nigeria have become a weekly affair now threatening to occur on daily basis. And when that becomes the case, that is when the mindless waste of life and property in the North becomes a daily event, then we can be sure we are on the way to Somali or some other parts of the planet blighted by war and other man-made calamities.

THAT the unconstitutional office of Nigeria’s ‘First Lady’ is a conduit for siphoning public funds while self-aggrandising has been brought to the fore by the ongoing face-off between the immediate past occupant of that office, Turai Yar’Adua and the ‘current champion’, Patience Jonathan, who, unlike Turai, is also a Permanent Secretary, PS, in her husband’s home state of Bayelsa.