for sometime, i have indeed felt like a harbinger of not-so-good news. this feeling started a while ago after i spoke with an old friend of mine who now lives in the USA and apparently, reads my blog whenever she can. it occured to me that i had a responsibility to share balanced information about goings-on in Nigeria, if people outside were following my rantings. but as you know, the most difficult thing is to keep your opinions balanced. thats why they are 'opinions' in the first place. my views, my bias, my judgment on all things. but is there any balanced view on issues like the car bomb that went off in delta state yesterday? call me an alarmist, but from the antecedents in Nigeria, we outdo the inventors of all vices. Nigeria did not invent ritual killings (i hear these things were rampant in the carribeans long before we even heard about it here) but it became a lifestyle here. scam emails didn't start from Nigeria, but we perfected the art. kidnapping for ransome di