At least 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners, that had been seized by Islamist gunmen.

I saw hope and appreciation on the faces of our people; we got gifts from every community and political leaders. Our people do not know any other political party contesting for this election other than me as the candidate of the PDP. I saw the massive outpouring of genuine love and support from the chiefs, elders, youths, women groups.

Across the 20 Local Government Areas, LGAs, and 37 Local Development Council Authorities, LCDAs, the major players have been engaged in permutations and fireworks, albeit subtly as they wait on the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC. The three-year tenure of the elected chairmen had elapsed in October, but LASIEC, hinging on the argument that it was waiting for voter register from INEC, is yet to conduct the exercise.

The Ijaws of Niger Delta have described the establishment of Edwin Clark University by its National Leader Chief E.K. Clark as the dawn of a new era in the history of Niger Delta.

Peter, not Peter the Apostle, but Peter, the Hero of High Walpole’s Novel entitled ‘FORTITUDE’, said “It is not life that matters, but the courage you bring to it”. It was part of Chief Obafemi Awolowo memorable speech and allocutus upon his conviction for treasonable felony, by Judge Sodeinde Sowemimo on the 23rd of September 1963.