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YINKA OLUJIMI
Five hearty cheers to Nigerian Compass
Sunday, 26 May 2013 07:38
How time flies!
Regular readers of this newspaper – by that, I mean those loyal members of the public who have been with the Nigerian Compass from the day it hit the stands – cannot but exclaim, “you mean it will be five years old on Sunday this week? Five years? Wonderful!”
How can a newspaper be so young, yet so impactful? How come one has to pinch oneself to be reassured that this paper is not, in fact, 50 years old?
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” – Ambrose Bierce 
The story was once told of a monarch – you may call him Chief/Thief! – who led his gang to rob the convoy of a white man who had just paid his palace a courtesy call.
ABOUT one week after the news was broken, the Federal Government is yet to react to a report that it has awarded a $40 million contract to an Israeli firm for monitoring Internet use in the country.
IT was not my first time en-joying the services of Emi-rates Airlines, but the only dawned on me during a trip last December: In the desert of the deeply religious United Arab Emirates (UAE), business and piety are held separate.
