Muri obviously knew where he was going and he pulled out all the stops in making Ibi fall for him like a ton of bricks – expensive lunches in discreet hotels that boasted room service, lavish present and cash gifts. He even took her ramshackled car to his mechanics for a very impressive make-over! Ibi was so impressed by her good fortunes that she told Dora, the girl she was having the cat-fight with all about it.

Let me tell you one thing, we can say that Jonathan has the constitutional right to contest despite the zoning agreement in PDP. You also remember that even when the Presidency was zoned to the south, Abubakar Rimi did not accept and contested against Obasanjo in the primaries.

Faith represents the crop of some ruthless young women the society is suddenly grappling with. Pretty with a degree under her belt, she was very lucky to be employed by one of the mobile phone network companies. Her boyfriend of almost six years, with whom she went to the university, wasn’t so lucky with employment.

I was recently in the office of an old schoolmate when the arrival of a girlfriend of his was announced by his secretary. “Let her come in,” he instructed immediately. Akin and I were fierce rivals in our literature class stying for our ‘A’ levels all those years ago. He’d done fantastically well for himself since he graduated and we’d remained firm friends over the years.

Single parenting is one rough bone nobody will want to chew. Whether one entered into it by way of being widowed or outright abandonment, the truth remains that nobody is in good shape with single parenting.