ALHAJI Lai Mohammed, the Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is ordinarily, a quiet, shy-looking man. That is how those of us who have known him over the decades see him. But as spokesperson of the opposition, he became so fiery and effective that under the Obasanjo administration, some feared for his safety. So I wrote a piece “Watching over Lai Mohammed”

I JUST spent about two weeks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) my longest in that country. Each time, I learn new things. One of them is a joke that brilliantly summarises the situation in the country.

THE President, Muhammadu Buhari is a victim of the high targets and expectations he and his lieutenants are setting. They do not appear to have learnt lessons from the Road Map and manifesto they made which are littered with promises, very difficult to fulfill.

What dominated the Session was not peace, the refugee crisis, food,jobs or human rights, it was war, particularly, the Syrian war. The world leaders traded blame particularly on the Islamic State (ISIS) but not on solutions.

I LONG for the good old days whenever I think about the new bad ones. In confronting the ugly scenes of today, my mind instinctively, switches, like some defensive mechanism, to my youth, or even my childhood. They were the periods of innocence. When humanity was a child.