LET’S REMOVE THIS CURSE By Biodun Opaleye Recently, I interviewed a cross section of retired people in our society irrespective of where they retired from. I discovered that most of them until recently earned between N800 and N2,000 not to talk of a huge percentage that earned nothing, judging by the small percentage of our working population out of the unwieldy 100-120 million Nigerian abandoned population. Everybody is now turning into a trader if he or she must feed daily from hand to mouth. The unpleasant spectacle is the huge percentage of ageing men and women I interviewed, who up till mid-day might not have eaten any food probably waiting for providential major meal for the day. As I watched many. I could imagine them cursing the society from within their hearts. Recently I overhead two prominent Nigerian citizens on radio and newspaper condemning the present members of the National assembly for being incompetent in one thing or the other. How I wish t...