Nigeria, Oct. 16 -- Prof Adekunle Oloyede, former Vice-Chancellor and professor of medical engineering, has now offered a second, deeper coconut metaphor. After his first note - "the hard shell must be broken before the delicious prize inside is revealed" - he adds:

_"I think the hardest shell we have and the most unresolved question is that of how happy we are with our union as a people. This is an intangible, but ever present and confronting question that must be answered. Until this hard shell is broken by doing something about that SIGNIFICANT question we would remain GREEK IDIOTS, GREEK TRIBALISTS, and never create enough GREEK CITIZENS that would build something tangible that all/most of us would be comfortable with (the PRIZE). O...