Tribute From Oludotun Malomo
I am now seeing the fruits of your labour at the Yoruba Constitution Group along with other patriots coming to fruition. The work for self-determination, the frequent trips for the Igbimo Omo Oduduwa meetings in Ibadan.

It was solidarity unlimited as All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Reps from Anambra State two Thursdays ago relocated from Abuja to the state to support Mrs. Uche Ekwunife in a re-run election that she eventually clinched.

Zakari Biu was last Wednesday dismissed from the Police Force by the Police Service Commission, PSC, for the commando-styled escape of Kabiru Sokoto, a Boko Haram suspect who is believed to have masterminded the dastardly Christmas Day bombing of the St. Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla, near Abuja, which claimed 44 lives, leaving many others severely injured.

Perhaps that was why in an essay by someone calling himself “a Noble Writer” derisively announced that “Law is injustice codified”. He might have a point. However, granted that it has become almost universally accepted conventional wisdom that “the law is an ass”, reasonable people, who hold the view that the law should be an instrument to serve justice, expect magistrates and judges to ride the ass and not crawl, on all fours, with it.

It is virtually impossible to predict what Victor Ehikhamenor will do next. From getting repatriated home (to Nigeria) on the team of Next, the newspaper that was to fulfil the integrity yearnings of the idealist Nigerian, as a Creative Director, he morphs to being a big player in new Media publishing with Zazugist.com. Best known as a roving visual artist albeit based in the United States, he is to the arts a natural, as comfortable with the pen as with the scapula. Chatting with Sunday Vanguard over lunch, he tells the reasons why he thinks pidgin English has come of age.