One of my most favourite English idioms right from my primary school days is the one that says that “A bad workman quarrels with his tools”.

Who says governance is a tea party. It is not and can never be because of the numerous challenges associated with it, which demands clear understanding of it, the ability to map out policies and programmes that will tackle the challenges without minding whose ox is gored.

IT would have taken more than a miracle for the national honours to be awarded without criticisms. What weakens present criticisms is that the proponents pretend the standards for the awards are new or that the high number of awards is necessarily an abuse.

THE judgment of the International Court of Justice, which purported to award the Bakassi Peninsula to the Republic of Cameroun, is to all intents and purposes outrageous, blatantly unjust and patently unsupportable.

LIVESTOCK in Nigeria plays a big role in the livelihood of farmers and nutritional needs of the country. Livestock also contributes to farming in many other ways. Animals are used as draught power to pull plows or help weed farmland, and cow dung is an excellent fertilizer.

INDEED, the August 2012 edition of Globe Asia, Indonesia’s number one business magazine, listed 100 top Indonesia-based companies whose 2011 revenues have helped to insulate Indonesia from the global economic crisis.

NIGERIA and Indonesia share a lot in common. Both are emerging economies bogged down by weak currency, corruption, unemployment, poverty and poor infrastructure.

For centuries the practice of naming one’s child after a saint was almost second nature. Typically, Catholics named their child after the saint on whose day he was born.

IT has recently become the obsession of the Northern Governors Forum to canvass the reinstatement of the Onshore/Offshore Dichotomy.

THE Central Bank of Nigeria is the institution in charge of the nation’s monetary and fiscal policies with enorm ous constitutional power to drive the economy.