As the world celebrated the New Year amidst lingering old wars, the major item that brought hope about a probable quicker end to the human tragedy being unleashed in Gaza was the case filed against the State of Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), otherwise called the World Court, at the Hague.

In a joint statement to mark the 2023 International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund said Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Case can change” is a euphemism often used to describe how quickly the police could transform an innocent person to a principal suspect or, indeed, set free a hardened criminal and procure a subterfuge to explain it away – that is, if they must explain. 

It was after 5pm Nigerian time – a period most commuters are already home or heading back from work. ‘Your money!’ the driver demanded. Few commercial drivers in Nigeria ever use the word “please”, or appear to spare any thought for such ‘awkward’ lexicon.

Nigerians will be heading to the polls on February 25 and March 11, 2023, to elect a new president, members of national and state assemblies, and governors. It will be another seamless transition from one democratically elected government to another since 1999 when Nigerians shed off the cankerworm of military dictatorship.

After reading through Mr. Dele Momodu’s rather emotional outburst in response to otherwise salient points raised in the statement we issued asking him to point out SPECIFIC AREAS of plagiarism in Asiwaju’s ACTION PLAN, my feeling oscillated between delirious laughter and outright pity for the pathetic wreck his life has actually become. Here is a miserable fellow who having previously overrated himself, crashed down like a wingless bird from a futile presidential ambition (for which he got zero votes in the PDP Presidential primaries), and ended up as a hyperactive hireling and attack dog of perhaps the worst serial loser in Nigeria’s electoral history.