At my age, I thought I knew so much about young Nigerian hip pop stars. Lucky chaps, they are busy making all the money and creating global headlines. While the older generation put in so much into singing without producing more than a clutch of millionaires, the new breed are smiling to the banks with ease.

Vice President Oluyemi Oluyeke Osinbanjo is indeed, a lucky man. May I join family and friends in thanking God for keeping our Pastor, Professor and lawyer alive, to preach the enduring mercies of our creator.

Ogun is the leadership capital of the South-West; it is pretty difficult to ignore what is playing out in the state especially the game plan of governor Ibikunle Amosun and his younger buddy, Adekunle Akinlade.

President Muhammadu Buhari is not my idol. My grouse with him is that he was offered the presidency on a platter of gold, but refuses to be the true statesman the world expected.

It was six days after Yuletide in 1983. President Shehu Shagari was in Abuja on holidays and waiting for the New Year. Brigadier Ibrahim Bako and Lt.Col. Tunde Ogbeha arrived on a different mission.

Those of us who accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of overthrowing President Shehu Shagari on December 31, 1983, may not be politically correct. The true story of that coup should be told by Major Mustapha Haruna Jokolo.

Compatriots, please let us wake up from this dream. Enough of expectations, there is no way Nigeria can do better than we are seeing now. As they say in computer lingo, garbage in, garbage out.

President Emmanuel Macron is a home boy and cares less about protocol. The same Kalakuta Republic that was burnt down by our maximum dictators in 1977 came back as Fela’s Shrine and hosted the French President in June, 2018.

Nelson Bossman Soroh became the first Nigerian to command a Warship when he took control of HMNS Kaduna from Lt. Commander Watting in December 1960.

The younger generation of Nigerians do not really know that just like President Goodluck Jonathan  wore no shoes as a school boy, the first Nigerian professional footballer, Titus Okere, showed up for trials at  Swindon, in 1952,without cleats.

To understand the present, we must learn from the past. It is an honour to consult Chief Joe Ifedobi, better known as Okosisi of Akpo in Anambra State. We got talking recently and the emergence of Dr. Alex Ekwueme as vice president was thrilling.

Kaduna is fast becoming our river of blood, competing with such countries as Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq in an unprecedented orgy of violence. The roads to this important Northern town are paved with skulls while Governor Nasir Ahmad El –Rufai sits comfortably.

The world they say is made up of people who accomplish things and those who get all the credit.  I doubt if Federal Government records will devote any space at all to the man who brought peace to the Niger Delta. His name is Allen Ifechukwu Onyema.

All eyes should move to Japan as we babble about diversifying the economy which relies, majorly, on oil. Technology plays a major role in industrialization, gateway to development.

Change is in the air, this Peter Obi formula expertly adopted by Abubakar Atiku calls for a national emergency. Aso Villa should not just dismiss it as another propaganda applied by the opposition.