This would be the third alert I would issue in the last fifteen years about a banking crisis about to occur. Almost invariably, the banking crisis causes collateral damage in the capital market – which heads down as a result. The recent appointment of market makers by the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, might represent taking on fresh fuel before a ship capsizes. It will not help; it might even add to the problems that would result from the carnage.

SECURITY (including general police work) and journalism belong to professions closely associated with dogs. In the first year of mass communication at the university you are taught that a good newsman must have “nose for the news”. Top dogs such as hyenas and wolves can smell carcasses from a mile off.

In the same manner that the Judiciary is regarded as the last hope of the common man, so also the Media has often been described as the voice of the people, but the role of the Media exceeds the mere expression of public expectations.

John Muinjo is the Chairman of the Namibia Football Association. He was in Cairo last week for the FIFA Workshop for Elite Match Commissioners in Africa and that is where I met him.

A house is laid on a foundation to give it support, strength and even structure. It’s not feasible to build a house without a base on which everything now stands. Human beings also have foundations and I would dare to say that our parents are the foundations on which we build the rest of our lives.

…. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

“I CAN TELL YOU THAT President Goodluck Jonathan knows those behind this ugly act. He is taking it with levity; he has refused to expose them. The President is demonstrating his weakness and telling the whole world that he is not capable of ruling the nation.

The word of God came to me the very first time during an armed-robbery attack. “Femi,” he said, “nothing is going to happen to you here.” Immediately, one of the robbers contradict-ed him by firing a bullet into my left leg. Even so, the word continued: “Femi, there is nothing wrong with your leg.”

I was bewildered the other week when an attendant at a diesel outfit in Ikoyi, Lagos, refused to serve me because I didn’t have an ATM card.

Nigerians are obviously by now already too numbed by the reports of public corruption at the highest places. There’s very little that is new about public corruption, nor anything in any scale now shocking or surprising about corruption in Nigeria. News of public corruption which could still scandalize and shock people in other places, and even sometimes make the devil blush with embarrassment, is now considered quite routine in Nigeria.