He enjoyed a rich professional life, rising to Director of Public Works and Permanent Secretary in the old Western Nigerian government. He left his civil service position in 1966 as permanent secretary and embarked on the academic life, joining the Engineering department of the University of Lagos where he also enjoyed a fruitful career.

Abacha died unexpectedly, just as he was getting his political machine ready to become a civilian president through a fraudulent election. Yar’Adua’s death was protracted, and, to me, expected. It was really a matter of time before he passed on.

He had, after that, moved on to be a Senator of the Federal Republic and also become the VIth Seriki Muslumi of Lagos. His grandfather was the First. His grandfather contributed to the building of the first Lagos Central Mosque and the Shitta-Bey Mosque in 1894.

The batons have changed hands and we have new heads at the Federal Ministry of Works, a federal body which is supposed to be in charge of federal roads all over the nation. Until a person ceases to exist, you have to keep hoping that there’s a shining light at the end of the dark tunnel which has been a hindrance to our well-being in this country.

However, Einstein never identified with any religion and he repeatedly distanced himsellf from the anthropomorphic deity of conventional religions. Although Marxist philosophy is not my area of specialisation, I know enough about it to be sure that Olatunji cannot provide any credible source to back his claim Karl Marx supported war on the ground that “betterment of the unfortunate might hinder the selection by survival of the fittest.”