How Osun State got to its present point is not surprising for many. The spite and spark that spilled from the campaigns, and then, the judicial crusade by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for the governorship in the last decade indicated that Osun was bound for something unfathomable. Following his landmark inauguration in November 2010, the idea of what awaited the people of Osun State even remained more in the sphere of imaginations.

It can no longer be any kind of news to you that, like a multiple thunderbolt, the death of three icons ripped through our sports world within a matter of a few days. From the United States of America, we learnt about the home call of Muhammad Ali, who was the boxing heavyweight champion of the world three times. He said with his mouth that he was the “greatest”, and made the world accept it in no uncertain manner.

“The White House said President Barrack Obama will not attend the funeral of Mohammed Ali, which coincides with the eldest daughter’s graduation. ‘They will be attending Malia’s high school graduation in Washington DC.’” (Vanguard, June 8, 2016). Can you imagine that? Obama, the first black American president, did not physically pay his last respect to the legendary Mohammed Ali, a fellow black great and arguably the greatest boxer of all time.

As the 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, presided over by Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, rolled into its first anniversary last Thursday, June 9, many Nigerians have had cause to give deep thoughts on how the Senate fared in the past one year. Not unlike Nigerians, this Senate, across the land, has received kudos and knocks over its achievements and challenges.

The Niger Delta Avengers have left a trail of kept promises and a crippled economy. They are in unambiguous terms, economic terrorists. They have tried to hide their sophistication with a fig leaf of poorly scripted twitter feeds. They pretend to defend the interests of the people of Niger delta but are not ashamed to publicize their diabolical affiliations with corruption. The Avengers may indeed be naïve and reckless. But those, whose surrogates they are, who have instigated this violence , are cold , and criminally manipulative.