‘IF both sides were satisfied with the outcome, the rest of the girls who wanted to come home would be swapped in a second exchange in return for two million Euro and five imprisoned Boko Haram commanders.

THE bloodiest attack ever by the “degraded” Boko Haram terror group against our military took place on Monday, November 19, 2018. The evil sect stormed a military base in Metele village, Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno State and left in their trail sorrow, tears and blood.

I refer you to a publication on page 34 of the November 12, 2018 edition of the Vanguard, in which one Awonuga Olajide Williams, in a highly combative piece titled The Pathetic Delusion of Yinka Odumakin, launched a scathing blitzkrieg on your person.

IT’S been three years since Papa Awolowo’s “Jewel of inestimable value”,Mama HID Awolowo joined the Saints Triumphant on the eve of her centenary and  now we are a few days away from the anniversary of the interment of what was mortal of her.

“We have to take an interest in the quality of our leaders and representatives in the level of education. If you look around this country at many levels of leadership, we have elected and we have chosen to elect people who do not have education. And because they are not educated, they cannot give education.”

THESE are not the best of times for the pseudo- progressives of Yorubaland as the rubber hits the road on the major issue that will determine the outcome of the 2019 elections , returning Nigeria to the path of productivity a.k.a restructuring.

MY first encounter with Akinwumi Ambode was at the Ikeja home of late General Adeyinka Adebayo the day after his transition.I was exchanging pleasantries with Otunba Niyi Adebayo when he walked in .As the governor offered his hand to greet me, a convoy screeched to a halt outside.

IN 1999, the entire South West  was under the control of the Alliance for Democracy, AD. When we were approaching the 2003 elections, I told my boss, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to give me the authority to take over the South West from the AD for the party.

LOUIS XIV was King of France for 72 years and 110 days  and became the most powerful French monarch who consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule that endured until the French Revolution. At the peak of his maniac, he said: “L’Etat c’est  moi”(I am the state).

THE gubernatorial poll that held in my state last Saturday was not just about electing the successor to the “Unusual Governor” Rauf Argebesola whose tenure will never be forgotten for the many unusual experiences  of the state of the Living Spring under him. It was equally a test of the seriousness of the opposition for the 2019 election.