It is somewhat curious that the initial stages of the project attracted attention in the facelift they afforded the waterfront of the city, the Marina. The natives call that part of Lagos, “Ehin’gbeti’, and follow it up with the popular saw, “B’oju o ba ti Ehin’gbeti, oju o ni t’Eko”.

What on paper looks so simple to do, in respect of the President’s health and governance of Nigeria has assumed a proportion greater than a herculean task for otherwise intelligent politicians of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, the PDP.

With a legacy interlaced with juicy off chamber exploits, the third term Senator is no push over and his decampment to the PDP is said to be in preparation for a more robust fourth term in the Senate from 2015

Perhaps one of the most important topics that tend to touch the minds of local politicians of all shades this year is amendment to the 1999 Constitution which the country is operating now. Politicians talk glibly about true federalism which reminds us of pre-Independence era. The three regions – North, East and West – each had its own Constitution, had its own civil service and its own judiciary.

AMINATOU Haidar is the mother of two sons. She was living with her family in Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony occupied by Morocco.