Many men have been forced to settle for women they did not love just because the women got pregnant for them and refused to have the pregnancies terminated, very few men have the courage to tell a woman to go to hell once she says she is carrying their child

This, and the pursuit of charity, is what Gani Fawehinmi lived and died for. That Gani Fawehinmi was poisoned along with others in the jailyards of our military administrators past will continue to be a rumour, just as the murder of Umaru Yar’Adua will continue to be a rumour until all who hatched and executed it are brought to book.

WITH the military in power and General Sani Abacha on rampage in 1994, almost all the professional politicians either worked for him or took cover; they tried to be out of sight as much as possible. Chief Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi who passed on last Saturday was not a professional politician.

Does this celebration of tenure of civilian rule not represent in fact the substitution of wishfulness for constitutional rule for deliberate and pro-active mobilization of the people for democracy? The question of the prospects of democratic constitutionalist government and governance in Nigeria are immediately determined by the contestation between military-rule political parties and civilian rule electoral parties within the context of the postcolonial transition.

I was 27 years old when I first had sex, and believe me, it was due to pressure from the lady I was dating. Sex to me is not worth all the noise and trouble that comes with it. It is not as if I do not get sexually aroused or that I am impotent.