SAD to say, but Ghana will have to take a backseat to Nigeria on progressive legislation. Late last month marked a significant date on the Nigerian democratic calendar. After collaborative efforts on behalf of the Media Rights Agenda, Open Society Justice Initiative, Right to Know Movement, Nigeria, and OSIWA, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan passed the Freedom of Information Bill into law.

TAKING a second look at what you described as your attempt to deconstruct the prevalent perspective about Northern Nigeria, may I say that what you called a prevalent perspective about the North is more than just a perspective. It is a perspective that is informed by the understanding of your ideology.

FORTY is a unique number. The letters of the word are in alphabetical order. This is the only number that has this linguistic property in English. The wife of the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Ekaete Unoma Godswill Akpabio has clocked the unique age of forty today, with all the uniqueness associated with the propriety of forty.

MY fellow Northerner, Kawu Moddibo, I chose to address you in this manner because I am a Northerner, from Okene, Kogi State.

THIRTY years ago, this month, health agencies in the US began monitoring unusual clusters of diseases that would later be identified as the first cases of AIDS.