This is the apogee of Sanusi’s pretentions to intellectualism. The childish writing betrays the hankerings of a man imbued with an exaggerated importance of his talents like the proverbial small man with a small job but with a big head. He wanted to write a mini-novel but it ended up being a travesty of that variety.It falls below what we can call a serious writing.His mental meanderings in the diary reveal a man that has lost all moorings.
One, the voice is not feminine, even though he wants to enter the world of the marginalised Islamic woman. It is a muffled speech hampered by an implacable stuttering.How does he think he can feel what the average woman in the North feels? Two,most Nigerian writers don’t know how to handle the tool called satire, and it was particularly a disaster in the hands of the banker,even Mr Sanusi.Satire writing demands maturity,adroit handling and detachment.But our writer is just preaching.Third, he wants to paint the image of a poor,uneducated and helpless woman weighed down by unnecessarily harsh legal/religious code but ends up painting the image of an over-educated and assertive woman that hardly deserves our pity and understanding even though that was the intention of Mr Sanusi.Nevertheless, the writer has good motives for embarking on the project & his courage is laudable.
Most worthy of note is knowing where the heart of the future CBN governor was a decade ago while his counterparts in other lands were busy trying to provide real solutions to their economic challenges. Mallam Sanusi was more at home pontificating on the fine intricacies of the Quoran rather than development economics.He hasn’t changed a bit. Are you now surprised why the banking industry where he presides is in such a terrible mess? Modern-day whoredoms for sale everywhere you turn,wouldn’t you say,folks?

It is intriguing how educated fellows are being swayed by pure emotions over the matter of religion. I have always said it: religion will be the death of us in this country. I really try to study the motives behind the introduction of Islamic Bank to Nigeria at this low period of hers; I would be deceiving myself if I found those motives to be altruistic, elevating and nation-building. Other nationals love their country and work for its well-being, but Nigerians are ready to dart arrows into the heart of the country while promoting their petty, narrow and insular religious ideas.
It is important we address our minds about some misconceptions on Islamic Banking.First, It is no free funds. It may not charge interest, but it is not slush funds you can wrap your hands around. It will cost you something.Second,don’t you ever think it will solve your financial worries and problems. It’s easy to begin day-dreaming on what is not.Why trying to break your heart?Third,it is not the recipe for solving our national economic woes: has it solved the economic problems of the countries where it is practised? Not really. So stop raising your hopes up. Above all,it won’t make you more holy or less corrupting. If your dealings have not been kosher in the conventional banking, Islamic Banking can’t provide that cure. It may,on the contrary, create more hate within you if you don’t watch it (judged by the negative comments on this issue, you may see that we are not too far off the mark). But if you have a healthy sense of cynicism, you don’t need hate but more love. Christianity or Islam is not our problem, it is the way we interpret them, the way we live it out among ourselves, the way we practise the tenets of love that really counts. Wealthy nations are not built on euphoria and religious purity but on sound business practises utilising the mind power.Nations that thrived on religious fervour always go the way dictated by history:poverty & oblivion.
It is a fact that Nigeria can never make any progress except we break along the lines of Southern & Northern Nigeria, reverting to a pre-Amalgamation era. Nigeria has been a soup of confusion and cacophony of voices with no movement. Hypocrisy and lying are the “directive principles of State Policy”. The North should practise their Islam, the South should remain secular cos I think Islam is more selfish, jealous,suspicious of dissent & criticism and clannish but Christianity is more liberal, accepting, tolerant and less prone to violence. Islam craves dominance at all costs while preaching peace;it sees the fault in the others and points fingers; it cries of foul play while it does not want its doors open for transparency; its adherents reserve the gutter language and dirtiest epithets for Jesus & His servants while it is sacrilegious to use those terms on the Imams & the Prophet. We are not compatible, never have been. Religion is the Iron Wall that shows we will ever be disunited if we remain one indivisible nation.I know my generalisations may be faulted here and there, but do me a favour: reflect some more. Provide your suggestions,but I have no other.
Go ahead with your Islamic Banking; I don’t begrudge you, but I am certain Nigerians will run it down in a few years’ time. Corruption is endemic in us!It will simply soon be ancient history like People Bank or those institutions built on nothing else but emotions. We are religious but not godly in the least. Bigotry oozes out of our words like a leaking ink pad. How I wish Islamic Banking would deliver what it is being cracked up to be. Pigs might fly.

You will all see the end of Sanusi Lamido,as he will surely end his days in shame:his lies,intellectual pretensions(the most incompetent CBN Governor ever;newspapers governor of the CBN,bla bla bla),arrogance,wickedness inflicted on the Nigerian economy will haunt him to his grave.He symbolises the archetype Boko Haram sympathiser on the corridors of power. What beats me is Jonathan's foolishness/shortsightedness in not firing him! In saner climes, this comment should have cost him his job. For the record, Northern Nigeria used the military to confiscate the resources from the South-South,yet they are the most underdeveloped parts of the country.A partridge that steals the eggs of other birds is a fool,I believe that. In the First Republic, we practised true federalism, in spite of the brutishness of the British,and each Region prospered, until advocates of unitary mentality centralised everything(lazybones). In spite of degradation of the oil communities, the squalor, the injustices in murdering Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogonis, it is the 13% pittance being paid to these hapless communities that Prince Sanusi now eyes! What a wicked comment from this garrulous fool. It all speaks volumes of the evil in his heart. The Oil States should naturally get nothing less than 50% of the oil being got from their domain;we hv to embrace derivation if we are to encourage hard work, prudence,and equity.The fact that the military brass foistered an abnormality on us shd not make us accept this theivery,this mathematical pillage.Democracy is a system where u canvass for your rights & ask for more of those.
For Sanusi to have linked Boko Haram attacks to a watery form of derivation is,to say the least,madness,sophistry and power-drunkenness combined.It is the insult of the decade!

I have nothing but contempt for this rabid,hate-soaked dog of a Jihadist foaming in the mouth.He spoke at length in incoherent rage: it is obvious that his life does not make any meaning to him and so are the lives of his victims.Come to think of it, if you hv never invested in your brain, if what is in the grey matter between your two ears is filled with nothing but the driest and the most extreme form of religion nurtured in the arid desert of hopelessness,you can bark and spew rubbish as you like,can't u?Some of these folks are sub-human, mentally and spiritually. If their population is 1000, then you can statistically regard them as one-quarters of humans i.e.250! Did anybody get the hang of his rantings? All I got was the adrenalin of killing for God, a romance in shedding blood,a thrill in dying for a cause he could hardly articulate. Devilish messengers! Beasts, the lot of them and their sympathisers!
For too long, Northern Nigeria has been rolling in bed with shady characters,encouraging them by neglect:those eggs have now grown up to be venomous snakes,ready to pounce on poor fellows along the path. If you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. Until the innocent blood spilled in Northern Nigeria in our generation(1966 till date) is avenged, this menace will not go away.God is too just to let their atrocities go unpunished. And with an incompetent leader like Jonathan, the dance of death has just begun! We will all reap the fruits of our wicked, loveless preachings both now and in the hereafter. Let the wicked continue, and let the righteous wait patiently for the Lord Jesus Christ as He beams forth from the skies to be seen by all men. Amen.

I think we have over-advised our sister! As a married man who prides himself on knowing some of the wiles of the heart, I think I can only say that male colleagues in the office can easily put on a front & facade of care & attention to the ladies. We may deny it, we may swear by the angels that we just care without any strings attached, yet the heart is cunning even to itself: all we really crave is dominance through sex! Women are too prone to be carried away by our attentions(so sad to admit: no wonder hearts are often broken in their hundreds daily these days). If I were to warn our trusty ladies: guys harbour some thoughts about your feminine assets without a thought about the viability of your homefront but only concerned abt our wild testoterones, and believe me, we are terrible! Mr Nice Guy, our Mr Cool, knows what he is doing and he can go to the ends of the earth to disguise it. HE WANTS TO HAMMER YOU REAL GOOD! And you are enjoying the attentions, naturally, even though u are denying this & lying through your teeth doing that.Our guy is adept at concealing  his intent behind a smiling exterior as a professional home-wrecker that he is,so wake up, lady!

Here comes the truly breath of fresh air who ordinarily shd be ignorant of the shocking poverty  policies of our government, & instead of being divorced from the pains of her people, is rather deeply concerned about the plights of the ordinary man and woman often trampled upon in the scramble for greed. Some of our GEJ's sympathisers here can never see the essence of plain arguments; these are those who would do just anything to harm the truth, who would write & vent stupid stuff in favour of those in authority, & feel a sense of exhiliratn to hv their man in power, nothing more. Why is it that the average African person worships authority figures who lord over him? Why does he offend his conscience/God & manfully repair to end up on the wrong track of history? Why does he prefer acquiescence to protest? Why does he colour any sane argument with the brush of triabalism and divisive partisanship? Perhaps the reason is that the African, or better put, the Nigerian citizen, is dead from the neck up. But this world-famous Nigerian-born novelist is a great relief: she is true to her arts and conscience. Nairaland shd be an intellectual powerhouse but regrettably scoundrels who would do anything to be noticed & used as thugs by politicians hv reduced it to a gutter arena where pedestrian madness reigns. Thank you, Chimamanda! Thank you! There is hope for the country with sound minds like yours!

Bleep! I wanted the NLC/TUC to bring the clueless and apathetic govt of GEJ to its knees so that we might redefine democracy from the basics.
The govt boxed them into a slippery corner; labour was afraid of getting a black eye from the episode.This decision was made in fear. But one can only imagine the pressure under which they made the capitulation.

I salute the Nigerian people for their doggedness, their cry & one voice against evil, their tenacity in the face of brutality and their love for the Nigerian space.

The fight continues; the dead must never go in vain. But let it be known that we dont have a government or if we hv it is militarist,laidback,lazy,daft,peopled by ignorant & vain ministers misinforming their tepid C-in-C.

GEJ's stupidity and aloofness from the anger of the people are crushingly painful & embarrassing. How can a president of a land not understand the dynamics of things about his people he professes to govern? In Nigeria it is common knowledge that a little increase in the cost of an input(in this case oil) always leads to more percentage increase in the price than the cost that triggerred it. If the price of fuel increases from N65 to N70,a mere 7% increase, may lead to prices of goods soaring to as high as 50-60% increase or even more. It doesn't hv a pattern or science.It's crude, and heavily weighted against the common buyers who are in millions. That is the Nigerian experience, that is the reality and that is what we know.Which is the ignorance the president betrays,or the calllousness in his admin policies. So,what the hell was the president trying to achieve by reducing the price of PMS from N141 to N97 when the economic consequences are the same in the unregulated, haggling-based, Nigerian markets? I know it is only trying to give labour & the society groups a bad name. He has failed!

The people have made their position known:come back to N65 or nothing doing! Once we are there, we would begin to address other issues. But our government is deaf to the voice of reason, but being egged on by a gaggle of shameless dogs who would rather hv the masses emasculated and destroyed just to have a taste in the looting spree,

Are we now practising oligarchy with copious vestiges of militarism or democracy? Expect war!

Most of our religious leaders diffidently hide under some isolated verses in order to refrain from making a atand for the truth & justice twds any burning national issues. How can u claim to love your congregation when what touches and pricks them is none of your business? Real prophets/men of God confront the evil fangs that eat into members' lives. But Pastor Tunde Bakare is a distinct exception. Fools mistake his passion for the underdog as an ego trip or attention seeking bug,but the average intelligent Nigerian who bears the pains of mis-governance of our rulers know better. Those liches and parasites that have reduced the hitherto healthy stems of the Nigerian tree to brownish rottenness are eager to call the true Nigerian heroes names,

Pastor,you are one advocate for the oppressed that we all know and love. Keep on the good work; u are in good company with Martin Luther King Jr.,John the Baptist, Archbishop Tutu and many others.

The administration of Jonathan is finished because he is disconnected from the people he is supposed to lead. He is determinedly on the side of the looters, because he is himself a big time looter. Down with the PDP and other reprobates in the corridors of power who yap: "Mr President, it is a courageous decision,we stand by you." Shameless looters, thieves,conscienceless barons, power prostitutes without honour, being cheered on by religious & dubious characters in wolves' clothing,