Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, stood still as the remains of the Secretary-General ,Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Alhaji, Abdul Lateef Adegbite, were interred, yesterday.

Adegbite passed on, on Friday.

At best, the Bakassi situation mirrors the extent of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s administrative incompetence even in handling matters of serious strategic relevance to Nigeria’s national security interest; at worse, it reflects the colonial conundrum – the result of the distortions in Africa’s national and cultural boundaries by, particularly, the Berlin conference where the famous “scramble for Africa” was enacted in the nineteenth century.

The purpose of this paper is to continue our commitment to make the Nigerian public our student body and thereby get them better informed about important issues. Because of the acknowledged importance of science and technology in social and economic development, we have tried in this article to make the Nigerian public better informed about science and technology, and to examine some of the factors necessary for it to thrive in our country.

The National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) has described as untrue reports that female Muslim pilgrims who were airlifted back to Nigeria last week were deported by the Saudi Arabian government.

When a lawyer tells the court, “it is settled law”, it is because his arguments are weak and that he has no precedents to cite. However, , believe me when I state that it is settled that where a political entity encompasses a multiplicity of groups of different fundamental identities, a federal political structure that provides for separate structures around these different identities is the most appropriate response. I will cite several examples to buttress this assertion. In fact, the refusal or inability to adopt this appropriate response is what was responsible for the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Sudan, etc.