It’s not impossible Lord Lugard is laughing in his grave.  It’s not often that  a man’s selfish and commercial adventure   come to be venerated as a moral ideal. When he strapped the southern and northern protectorates together in 1914, he did it to meet British colonial interests.

The outgoing week, like many others in recent Nigeria’s polity, has been very eventful, full of drama. This is even more so with news of the return of President Muhammadu Buhari from London after about 104 days away.

It is with a very warm heart that I write this letter of welcome to the commander-in-chief of our Federal Republic. Our army is in tatters, but that does not remove from the importance of this unique and extraordinary role.

A big fight is taking place in the US tonight. Some people would want us to believe that it is going to be the fight of the year. To those who perhaps are not used to the lingo, the word ‘fight’ is often used to interplay with the word ‘boxing’ among the faithful because it reminds them of the origin of boxing.

Necessity they say is the mother of invention. Nations that catapulted themselves into the developed club had visions and dreams with embedded options of practical realities. Nigeria is walking a very long, tortuous road to the top. In the 20th century twilight we had several vision statements with clichés like: Housing for all by the Year 2000; Health for all by the year 2000; Education for all by year 2000; and so forth.