LEBEN und tot lassen”. This is a German expression for what has today become fashionable in Nigeria – Live and let die.

The combatants have fought a good fight. In times like these, every Edolite, irrespective of party affiliation; and religious or ethnic differences, must quickly banish from his heart, all feelings of disappointment, all sense of chagrin; and like the gallant soldier, fall in line

EVIDENTLY, President Muhammadu Buhari is torn between two worlds: if he gets too tough, people will easily conclude that he is back to his 1984 elements. But if he relapses into his “born again” stance of democracy, he will be seen as the Go-Slow President. The erroneous conclusion is already being drawn in some quarters that Buhari is fast walking himself into becoming Nigeria’s weakest President ever.

Awards are good only to the extent that they serve as vehicles for moving society forward

FOR Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, this is certainly not the end but the beginning. This is one man who is not easily given to empty praise-singing.

THINGS equal to the same thing are equal to one another”. To be able to remember C.V Durrell after many years of a successful escape from geometry should be much closer to the realm of the miraculous.

Christians should understand that Igue is not fetish; rather, it is the ultimate annual thanksgiving of the Edos; and it should be embraced by all

MAE West was essentially right when she asserted, “You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough”. The life and times of our late Sage, Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, lend full credence to West. Ogbemudia was one man who lived to the fullest. If re-incarnation were truly a fact of life, Ogbemudia’s achievements in his one life time could easily have surpassed the achievements of most men in their fourteen life times.

TRULY, everyone has an underlying philosophy of life – even those to whom the subject of philosophy is anathema. On his arrival at the Edo State Revenue House some 68 months ago, Chief Oseni Elamah made it clear that the day you arrive at a place is the same day you begin to plan your exit. That explains in large part why, throughout his stay in office, no file ever stayed on his table overnight.

IN the traditional African setting, the practice was that as a man grew older, he began to farm nearer home, principally to avoid the rigour of a long walk to the farm. At that time, conventional wisdom also dictated that when a man became terminally ill, he was brought home because there was greater honour in dying at home than being brought home dead.