Nigeria, March 23 -- Nigeria these days reminds me of the popular children's novel back in the day,One Week One Trouble, written in 1972 by Anezionwu Nwankwo Okoro, a Nigerian writer and medical practitioner.

The protagonist, Wilson Tagbo, begins secondary school, but his flaws soon put him at odds with the school system, and no week passes without him landing in fresh trouble at the school.

In our country, these days hardly a week passes without the public space being thrown 'one trouble' that would have everyone huffing and puffing for a while before another issue comes up to push that one aside. Only in our case, sometimes the trouble does not wait for up to one week.

Before last week, it was the vexatious Supreme Court of Judgement...