In the wake of Globalization as a socioeconomic ideal, Nigerians loved to mouth the mantra to the effect that ‘government has no business doing business’.

At a high-octane Lagos State event last year, outgoing governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, was the only governor present in the opposition.

When Emmanuel Macron, president of France celebrated his 40th  birthday, it wasn’t a disco party in jeans and designer t-shirt, gyrating to old school pop music and savouring the last moments of youth, as those of that age group are won’t to do. For him, youth had been over a long time ago.

Teju Abiola, one of the youngest – if not the youngest – wives of MKO Abiola during his lifetime, was a vociferous human rights advocate, up until her demise in 2010. A woman of great beauty, sharp wits and a delicate frame, she hardly fit the profile of a rabble rouser; but she was, devoting much time and resources to forcing out the post June 12 dictators and then watering the seedling of the democracy which had germinated out of the June 12 struggle.

The loving lawmaker and the real issues“ It is car-giving season, it would appear. It began with sweetheart crooner David O, who presented a porsche to his 23 year old flame of the moment on her birthday, his baby daddy drama of yester years forgotten. Fast forward to Nina of the Big Brother fame , who was gifted a brand new automobile for her 22nd birthday last week by one Toyin  Lawani, her stylist. “But that is show business . In that world glamour, glitz and grandeur hold sway; and the fellow whose actions command the most attention wins.“ It is quite the opposite in public service in general .

Adamu Garba II is the Chief Executive Officer of IPI Solutions Nigeria Limited, a cloud computing company headquartered in Lagos. His company is ranked by the silicon review as a top 10 Microsoft solutions provider in Africa. His company services clients in 39 African countries. He delved into politics in 2017 with a vision to structurally reform Nigeria.

When, in 2016, Hilary Clinton lost in the presidential elections of the United States, I wept. It had nothing to do with her opponent or her credentials- not in the usual way; but simply because, in my view,    she was far too invested and had made too many sacrifices to have that exalted job slip through her fingers when it mattered the most.

Different media organizations have from within and outside the country, bandied different figures on the number of schoolgirls that had been released of the 110 abducted February 19   by suspected Boko Haram insurgents; from Government Girls Science and Technical College Dapchi, Yobe state. Finally, most have settled on 101.

All of a sudden, Nigerian women and men alike have turned to faddish diets to solve their nutritional, health and even beauty problems. The most popular by far of these is the ketogenic diet, which involves practitioners eating mostly fatty foods while shunning carbohydrate rich foods altogether.

The West African sub region has fared poorly in the last twenty to twenty five years, with regards to infrastructure, social structure and the economy. Worse still, the region- like much of Africa- has also suffered unprecedented unrest and fully fledged warfare in many cases. Nigeria had been one of the lucky countries.