Many Nigerians do not know specific functions of the three tiers of government and tend to put the blame for every thing on the most visible tier. Clogged drains in front of their houses are blamed on the Federal Government, while the Chairman of their Local Council makes away with federal revenue allocations to the area and revenue generated, usually at the expense and to the discomfort of residents of the LGA.

Things Fall Apart is currently been celebrated all over the West with such frenzy that I begin to wonder what they would have done if Achebe were an American or European. In the midst of all this jubilation, the Nigerian government has maintained a pathetic silence, leaving only the media and the Nigerian literati to sing the song of victory for this Nigerian hero.

Win or lose, last night finally erased all doubts as to whether “that one” has all it takes to be president. Even McCain said it. “We need a cool hand on the tiller.” And on that I say I agree with McCain. I only hope someone out there will summon the courage to walk up to him and tell him he has not got a cool hand. His hands are erratic.

General Babangida told me that after considering the matter, he wanted to give Vatsa a reprieve and asked me, a friend of his, a friend of both of them, that I should search for verses in the Bible and Koran that talk about the quality of mercy.....He (Babangida) came out, and he gave his pledge. He said: "Gentlemen, I’m glad you people came, I’m going to throw my weight on the side of mercy, I promise you, I’ll do my best." 

For some, going overseas to have babies is an objective that must be met at all cost. It doesn’t matter what country; overseas is overseas so long as it is not Nigeria . Pregnant wives and pregnant mistresses who can’t secure visa to their preferred destinations settle for third rate countries. South Africa is fast becoming a destination of choice. The pull-push factors behind these trends are telling evidence that Nigeria is sick.

Compatriots, here is the concluding part of my re-production of Peter De Iongh’s article:

NIGERIA – Two Imperialists and their creation (“The largest of African republics possesses an ancient and composite civilisation, but the form that the country takes today owes much to two British colonial administrators”)

 "It is logical to assume that in the last sixteen months the president would have learned how to assert himself, he needs to understand that he is being watched to deliver more of the “Okonjo-Iweala” type ministers and not the “Grange” type ministers that he claims were forced on him.."

Not many know about the Russian Nobel Laurette, writer and christian philosopher, Leo Tolstoy and how his ideas had impacted humanity. Only a few know that he wrote the book " The Kingdom of God is Within You" which is one of the earliest works that attempted to take the Church out of the walls of the Church Building into the real of social realities in a modern society.While Americans grapple with the

October 1, 2008. If the mood of the nation was sombre, as she marked 48 years of independence, it was much more in my home. And it all started with an unexpected early morning phone call.

Human capacity building for every generation requires a different approach. There is a war out there in every country for efficient human energy generated in the brain. Any country that has no appropriate approach will soon become “Relevant-mind” bankrupt and it can stunt economic growth.