The three day international conference on the theme, Africa and the Diaspora in the New Millennium held at the University of Missouri, St Louis, United States of America by the Centre for Black African Art and Civilisation ( CBAAC) in conjunction with E Desmond Lee Endowed Professorship of African/ African-American Studies and International Studies Program at the University of Missouri- St. Louis and Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG) Nigeria has come and gone. But the memory will linger for a long time.

Alhaji Lam Onaolapo Adesina,Oyo State governor from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2003, passed on to glory on Sunday, 11, November, aged 73 years. Lam rose to the pinnacle of all his callings in life. He got to the zenith of his career as a teacher; as a social crusader, he got state recognition and was tagged a ‘prisoner of war’. Politically, he did not only realize his ambition of becoming the governor of his state, he achieved the extra ordinary by installing a governor, not while in power but eight years after he had left office.

Whereas corruption is generally associated with stealing of (public) funds, the following catalogues the many serial acts that demonstrate how corruption magnifies the scope of underdevelopment – especially in a zero-sum political atmosphere like Nigeria’s, with a ruling party that has the nation in a vice-grip hold, and politicians whose major consideration is about the verb ‘EAT

To Governors Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo) as well as a former governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, the death of eminent jurist, Justice Kayode Eso, is a monumental loss to the country and the judicial profession.