THOSE who know you very well would testify to all that care to hear that you are a good man, perhaps outspoken and a bit rough around the edges but a very good and dependable man.

Two events in the pension sector have dominated the airwaves in recent times, and have the potential to lead to erosion of confidence in the pension system if the issues are not put in proper perspective.

IT is a moment of grief and sadness for the families of public officers caught and arraigned for stealing pensioners’ funds. The media have published their photographs as major culprits in Nigeria’s largest pension scam.

THESE days many people die after “brief illness”. In our part of the country, whoever dies after a protracted illness is seen as having “died a good death” because he gave his children and other relations the opportunity to look after him and say thank you for everything he did for them before departing.

THE weather this late afternoon was temperate and friendly. The sun which had earlier made its scorching appearance had disappeared sooner than expected, yielding position to a rather cool and clement late noon.