michael john

Chris Clayton, the celebrated journalist, was right after all: “Politics is derived from two words – ‘poly’, meaning many, and ‘tic’, meaning small blood-sucking insects.” As your grandmother ought to have told you, every “insect” has an appointment with fate and it does appear that one Donald Trump’s date with fate is drawing dangerously, and rightfully close.

Begging on the international circuit should not be a diplomatic objective of any government. A country should have pride and not give the impression that it has the character of nomadic begging. Even if the country has more than its fair share of beggars. The Buhari government should not give us the impression that talk is cheap and it never intended to live up to its hype.

Back in the good, old days when men were men and women were married by the men who deserved them (not boys in torn, sagging jeans, spotting platted hair and nose rings and ear rings); a music band called “Rare Earth” released a rare song titled “Any man can be a fool.” It was not particularly new discovery, but it contributed to the world’s common wisdom that a wise man can sometimes be a fool and a foolish man can sometimes be wise.