Please, turn off that radio. I’m tired of all these campaign jingles,” said this mother to her teenage undergraduate daughter.

Experts in human behaviour tell us that to make good progress in life, we use yesterday’s experience to improve our today and the future.

Along with food and water, one very essential basic need of man, and animals, come to think of it, is light. We thank God for day light which is available free to all living things. What would we do without it? When you think of the very poor results of our efforts in Nigeria (via PHCN) in supplying our citizens with man-made light, you can’t help but be grateful to God for His high quality light which costs us nothing, is harmless and convenient wherever we happen to be. What’s more, He doesn’t discriminate between the rich and the poor when making it available to us.

I felt sad when I read on the internet that a young lady in her 20s attempted to take her life because her boyfriend left her a note saying that he was ending their relationship because he no longer found her attractive.

Violence, whatever the dimension, is a terrible thing, whether you are a victim or an onlooker, although some in the latter category, may feel so unconcerned that they may even think it is exciting watching people bloodied. That is, until they become victims when they experience the nightmare that comes with violence.

I must confess that I was a bit upset about the image that some of the readers who responded to the piece above are giving to our Nigerian women.

Mrs C, I learnt you’re returning home tomorrow,” I told this lady who had come with her family to spend the Christmas holiday here. It was their first time in the country and they had been invited here by a business acquaintance of her husband. “Have you all enjoyed your vacation here? Will you be visiting us again in future?”

We were overwhelmed by the huge response we got with regards to the above topic. Apart from text messages, we got a few verbal responses from the streets.

There is no doubt that Father Ralph loves his God more than he loves the woman of focus as he claims in the movie. His problem started the day, when as a young priest, he sets his eyes on Meggie, who became his protégé, till when he died as a Cardinal. Though a fiction, this story represents the sexual struggles that many Christians are dealing with.

Our problem in this country is that the men think they know it all, and are more qualified to rule than the women are,” declared Mrs. Z. at a recent seminar organised to encourage women to take more active part in politics.