Three notes on the Nigerian moment

By SULEIMAN A. SULEIMANI was an avid reader of the THISDAY Backpage columnists in the late 1990s to the early 2000s, from Dr Amanze Obi on Mondays to Waziri Adio on Sundays. Somewhere in the middle of the pack was always Simon Kolawole, who would end his columns with “And Four Other Things…”, where he would dispense with four other issues in a series of short and sharp comments after the main article. It became his signature style, and he does it still at TheCable.