CHIEF David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode (Femi Fani-Kayode, for short), former Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Minister of Culture and Tourism, and former Minister of Aviation, is truly a remarkable fellow. Whenever he speaks or writes, he poses an intellectual challenge as to where to draw the line between normality and abnormality. The instances are numerous, but his last outing: “The gutless eunuch and the lion king”, published in The Nation of Friday, January 17, 2014, raised critical issues which the psychiatric community must tackle in the interest of the nation.

The new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Adamu Mu’ azu was, yesterday, locked in a two-hour secret meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, at the latter’s Hilltop Mansion, in Abeokuta.

A total of $88.4 billion left the shores of Nigeria to foreign lands through official channels in 2013 of which $18.3 billion was remmitted in three months thus giving an average foreign exchange outflow of $1.7 billion weekly.

The Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) were yesterday locked in a war of words over the opposition party’s directive to its members to shut down the affairs of the Federal Government. This came as APC House members, weekend, vowed to heed the party’s directive.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, reiterated that despite the challenges facing the country in various facets, the country will reach its destination of greatness.
Speaking at a church service at the Goshen City, the Headquarters of the Winners Chapel, President Jonathan said what the Nigerian leaders need were prayers for them to lead the country aright.

Hundreds of Nigerians kept late nights here in Cape Town as celebrations over Super Eagles victory over Morocco continued till early hours of Sunday across the city.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has removed the limit of $250,000 that banks can sell to each Bureaus De Change per week.

After keeping mute for sometime on whether or not he will seek re-election to the position of number one citizen of the state come June 21 ,this year, Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, has finally broken his silence, saying he is seeking re-election.

THe five disenchanted governors of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, last year, have dashed the hope of their former party to get them back to its fold.
The quintuplet, while reacting to the setting up of a committee by the National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu, to woo them back, said that it was rather too late for them to think of returning to the party.

When he finally died in military detention in 1998, the curtains fell on one of the characters on the Nigerian stage whose life story will remain part of the national legend for as long as there is a nation called Nigeria. M.K.O.