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  PDP and Alan Greenspan - No Thank You!    By M.B.O Owolowo I saw a picture of Alan Greenspan with PDP's “commonsense” Senator and a notorious prevaricator famed for fake news "Wendell Simlin” and it underpinned why PDP must not be given the privilege of running Nigeria’s economy again.  If after 16 years of mismanaging Nigeria, Alan Greenspan is PDP's epiphanic solution, then Nigerians are better off weathering the economic storm ingeniously.  There are so many brilliant Nigerian and African minds – neocolonialism free – across the globe, to engage for solutions to Nigeria's challenges. I am convinced these brilliant minds would do a far better job than a 92 year old man who has been widely blamed as a major architect of one the worst financial crisis in world history - the 2008 global financial crisis.  Personally, the global financial crisis affected my business and investments, though it affected other people in more devastating ways. There were thousand

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Timely Homily   President Muhammadu Buhari’s piece titled “ Don’t Politicise Religion in Nigeria” published by Church Times can be viewed as a timely homily that is very crucial to our existence as a nation. The citation of a biblical apophthegm in Amos 3:3 should resonate with all peace loving people genuinely interested in peaceful coexistence. Though, religion has already been politicised, Nigeria can still manage the manifestations of religious politicisation. In the article, President Buhari stated, “Along with the millions of Christians in Nigeria today, I believe in peace, tolerance, and reconciliation” . He further mentions his belief in “compassion” . Having analysed Nigeria from a socio-religious viewpoint for decades, religiosity without compassion is very much prevalent. The lack of compassion towards others, especially those of other faiths, including the faithless, is becoming more widespread, and the pulpit is partly to blame for t