WATCHING the Scotland debate:On Thursday September 18, 2014, Scottish group in the United Kingdom will be forming single files to the ballot box, to cast one-person one-vote in an historic referendum.

THE Online dictionary – dictionary.com – describes hemorrhage as a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel. In looking for a word to best describe the ongoing exodus from the All Progressives Congress (APC) of its leading lights, I could not find a better word than hemorrhage.

A GRID iron is an intentional malapropism. In medicine, one gridiron is the type of incisionused in appendectomy, the removal of an inflamed appendix, a vestige of the gut with little or no use but a litany of woes. Here, alternating crisscrossing cuts are employed as progress is made into the abdominal cavity.

PARENTS and guardians with their children and wards in both public and private primary and secondary schools – which were earlier scheduled to reopen by the third week of September after a long holiday that began late July – were directed by the Federal Government to adhere to a new date following the sudden outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country.

THE Ebola virus disease came into this country and displayed its deadli-ness; thanks in part to so many coincidences, the virus is being successfully contained – the first hospital of call of the first Ebola victim; the professionalism of the first doctor who attended to him, late Dr. Stella Adadevoh and the state of first visit, that is Lagos state.