Well, how far have we really gone with the Boko Haram? As far as knowing their real purpose? We still seem to be generally stuck with the unlikely submission that it s an Islamic sect that is incensed by the acceptance of Western education in Nigeria.

I n faraway Australia, a point of clarification arose among the highest officials of the Commonwealth at their recent meeting, about the situation of the highly controversial oil subsidy in Nigeria.

The terrain looks rather potholed from this distance. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan seems set to travel roughshod on the back of his people, on his way to the realization of his transformation of the nation. The man seems to have broken loose. He says he is not a lion but, whatever he classifies himself to be, it cannot be tame.

The terrain looks rather potholed from this distance. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan seems set to travel roughshod on the back of his people, on his way to the realization of his transformation of the nation. The man seems to have broken loose. He says he is not a lion but, whatever he classifies himself to be, it cannot be tame.

The proposition of recreating the old Western Nigeria, now split up under several administrative structures, is intriguing. Those who advocate idea are, of course, of Yoruba descent.

The proposition of recreating the old Western Nigeria, now split up under several administrative structures, is intriguing. Those who advocate idea are, of course, of Yoruba descent. As it is, only Edo State, cannot claim to be Yoruba, though a section of it is ascribed a Yoruba ancestry which, howbeit, has been strongly contested in recent times.

Pastor Tunde Bakare, for whom I still cherish a lot of fondness despite his recent foolhardy foray into party politics, found some comfort last year when Nigeria was fifty, in the fact that the nation had remained together in the face of all odds. I have often wondered how much profit was in the mere fact that we could indeed be said to have stayed together as one country.

Pastor Tunde Bakare, for whom I still cherish a lot of fondness despite his recent foolhardy foray into party politics, found some comfort last year when Nigeria was fifty, in the fact, that the nation had remained together in the face of all odds. I have often wondered how much profit was in the mere fact that we could indeed be said to have stayed together as one country.

One of the exasperating and sometimes tragic aspects of situations that are patently intractable is their tendency to develop unpredictable ramifications.

It was described as the first of briefings by the President, and he handled it as to the manner born. Of course, it was not really his very first performance of that kind; though he has never appeared in the ranks of the reticent, yet President Goodluck Jonathan did not appear too eager to formally address the nation extensively or comprehensively on several pressing issues of the moment.