It is said that the Special Adviser on Information and Strategic to the Lagos State Government, Mr. Segun Ayobolu, voluntarily withdrew his services on grounds of ill-health earlier this week. It warms the cockles of my heart that he is a kindred spirit, in the sense that he runs a backpage column every month in the Alausa Alert newspaper.

The recent (or current) issue of where the Annual Budget should be presented by the President of the Federation, Alhaji Umar Yar’Adua, might be described as uncalled for

There were speculations that the verdict of the Court of Appeal on the matter of the Anambra State Governorship case involving Dr. Andy Uba, could create a state of anarchy in the State, if it was not properly handled. Legal tussles of that kind are usually attended by conjectures, and rumours of one kind or the other.

I always knew I would one day be forced into making a comment or two about sports although I had decided to reserve any expression of my feelings, exciting or depressing, to myself. I was sure that I would mostly be assailed by the latter anyway, so why bother.

Well, since you and I are neophytes in this perennial itch of “deregulation”, I believe it is high time someone competent stepped out to scratch deep into the issue which is uppermost in our minds, to wit, the price of fuel nationwide.

Social unrests from which new crimes arise have a way of leaving the crimes behind afterwards as a legacy of anguish

President Umaru Yar’Adua cannot be under the delusion that all is well in the Niger Delta, in the sense that the recent amnesty, following the surrender of arms by the militants, is the harbinger of peace in that difficult area. Of course, it definitely points the way, but it has no loud announcement to make yet about our arrival.

It was one of those days that start off normally and then suddenly acquire an aberration with which they stamp their imprint on history. We had never experienced a trade dispute that led to a strike before. Anyone who had heard about it was left to only imagine it.

I LOVE MY COUNTRY, I NO GO LIE NA INSIDE AM I GO LIVE AND LEAVE By Bisi Lawrence We used to sing that and profess to believe in it. But come on, now!… I mean, why then the long queues at the foreign embassies where you swallow insults on the visa line?

Women! Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Honourable Member of the House of Representatives and former (?) media personality, led the chorus and the whole house joined in.