BUT for the last minute wade-in by President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of last Saturday re-run elections in Rivers State that elections are not “do-or-die” affairs ,we would by now be concluding that the sad quote of former President Olusegun Obasanjo has become an official state policy in Nigeria.

AN accessory before the fact is one whose will contributes to the felony committed and he must be too far away to render assistance, or he becomes a principal in the second degree.

FIDEL Alejandro Castro Ruz took his final breath on November 26, 2016 taking along with him our beloved Fred Agbaje,Lagos-based activist Lawyer;and bringing closure to a long era.

A PROFESSOR told the story the other day of how University of Ghana years back came up with the brilliant idea of building high-rise hostels for its students to accommodate most of its populace.Contractors were engaged and in record time the beautiful pieces of architecture were ready. Commissioning was done with fanfare and students moved in to their new homes.

IT has been exactly 175 days since I made my previous contribution as a guest on this page. However, every Tuesday morning from approximately five thousand seven hundred and thirty one miles away before most Nigerians wake up,

Lagos is the most populous city in Nigeria and the seventh fastest growing city in the world

NOTHING typifies the fault lines in Nigeria today than the boldness with which the governors of the north pursue sectional and sheepishness with which southern governors go about with their tails tucked between their wobbly legs.

I HAVE given up on some Lagos folks who can’t understand that this nation,country is founded in iniquity and sustained by injustice.We have been locked in this argument over the years on whether Lagos should be pleading for some special status in a land of systemic inequality or press for what is due to her in a properly federated Nigeria.

WHEN Femi Lawson in the dead of the night on Friday posted the newsflash on Core Federalists ,a group of finest minds on Federalism discourse in Nigeria,that DSS operatives were ransacking homes of some High and Supreme Court judges,I found it hard to believe and I asked him to provide a link.Pronto he brought Sahara Reporters.

ON behalf of all users of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, I am calling on the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) to immediately get German Construction company Julius Berger to stop the wickedness in high places that has been going on for months now on that major road.

SIR Olaniwun Ajayi is turning 92 next April and anytime you sit around him you must learn one or two things. He has a gift of recollection and his memory is so agile for a man of his age

FOR those who have been nursing hope that our country would get out of recession when government rolls out plans to combat the scourge,this may just be the time to get their sackcloth if the retreat that took place in Abuja last week is all that was in the offing.

THERE were a few memories of my secondary school days that I recall when I want to have a hearty laugh in my solitary hours. One was about a guy called Lucky Friday who was supposed to receive some strokes of cane from the Principal on the assembly ground but was not seen the day assigned for the punishment.

PROFESSOR Ango Abdullahi, a supremacist and henchman of Northern Elders Forum was one of the memorable” VCs without CV” in the days when the University idea was still close to the ideal in our country .It was the period when those patriots in ASUU naively thought that we were trying to build a country and were pontificating that anybody who would head a university must have a proper academic background and requisite academic publications.They didn’t quite know that we were yet to have a national consensus on nation building.

GOD bless the soul of Senator Abraham Adesanya on the other side of eternity.There was no one who stayed around the late good old man for long that would not remember his depth of Yoruba philosophy with his wisecracks and anecdotes.