“I am different from every other single person who has ever won anything so I know my case is going to be different and it is going to be awesome. I mean I got kicked off the competition and was brought back and I won!

I am inspired by life, hence I study it. I look at the way people live from the other side of the mirror. I see things people are blind to. I do a lot of research and read a lot. I watch TV and also travel and meet people. Now that it’s a job, I deliberately make an effort to look out for the funny side of life.

One of the landmark bills the Seventh Senate passed was the Sexual Offences Bill sponsored by Senator Chris Anyanwu. The bill seeks to protect people of different categories, minors, teenagers, the aged and people with disability from being sexually assaulted. But there has been a misconception in some quarters that the bill tried to encourage defilement of minors. In this interview, Senator Anyanwu says she was misquoted and puts everything in its right perspective while hoping that the President assents for the bill to become law.

People who know Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Governor of Osun State say he is a brilliant man. I have never met him despite my close ties with Osun State but have watched him on the soap box a couple of times and I can attest to his oratorical prowess. But there was nothing brilliant or oratorical about him last week when he appeared on TV trying to defend his inability to pay salaries. He looked incoherent and pathetic.

Barely 22 days after assumption of office as the 14th Executive Governor, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday announced the scrapping of the state Ministry of Rural Development and Parastatals Monitoring Office as well as Political and Legislative Powers Bureau, while merging others with the aim of reducing government expenditures.