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The girls are ageing gracefully
Monday, 20 May 2013 02:15
I BELIEVE it was the huge response of readers to my article on The Boys Are Getting Old last Monday that prompted the Chairman of the Compass Editorial Board Tayo Agunbiade to demand of me a write-up on my women contemporaries who have been admitted into the prestigious Septuagenarian Club or closely reaching for the club.
The National Assembly is fighting back after it received serious whipping from the executive arm of government. For over one year now, the legislators have been treated as if they were some appointed officials of the executive. 
THEY have come again, these liars who call themselves journalists. That was my reaction on reading the latest report that the Right (and Left!) Honourable members of the House of Representatives, whom a cynical friend of mine most ingeniously call Representa-thieves, have demanded, yet again, a jack up in their quarterly allowances.
FINALLY, the madness in the polity has caught up with the Judiciary. I am sure many Nigerians are not surprised at this dangerous development because as we say in Yoruba, when you beat a drum relentlessly, it will eventually burst.
I HELD it back long enough but the tales of 
