I’ve taken my time to listen to all sides of the discourse currently raging all over our nation bothering on the high cost of foreign exchange and the impact of the falling oil prices especially their effects on businesses. In the end, I can’t help but marvel at the depth of the human mind. The mind can come up with deep persuasive arguments for or against any thing depending on what side it wants to perch on. Small wonder politicians and lawyers make a lot of money but I digress.

One can never forget the second bombing incident in Nigeria when a terrorist attempted to bring down the Louis Edet building, the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in the nation’s capital city, Abuja.

SINCE January 31, 2016, the atmosphere of several communities of Ndokwa East, Delta State located in the West Bank of River Niger, has been distinctly uncomfortable. This was the day Fulani herdsmen, fully armed with their AK 47 riffles moved in swiftly with their cattle into the farm lands of Abala and Utchi communities including their satellite communities that are in the thick rain forest.

WHEN Robert Kaplan penned the highly popularised article in 1994, “The coming anarchy”, his gift of clairvoyance was vehemently criticised by various African scholars and politicians who believed strongly in the spirit of Africanism.

THE first time Wole Soyinka misdirected himself, it had to do with his “cautious endorsement” of Muhammadu Buhari’s presidential candidacy. He offered a platter of reasons for the stunning faux pas, of course. But, post-election, his out of sync reading of Nigerian politics has been patently exposed.