Nigeria, the country bequeathed us by the British colonialists, is beset with problems most of which are attributable to incompetent leadership. In their legitimate quest for positive change, Nigerians voted in large numbers for the All Progressives Congress (APC). I am one of those Nigerians who believe that dredging up a seventy two year old retired soldier, Muhammadu Buhari, to vie for the presidency for an unprecedented fourth time after his brief tenure as military head of state thirty-five years ago is counterproductive and retrogressive.

These are trying times for many people in our country. Families are struggling to meet financial obligations, jobs remain scare, retrenchment is the order of the day in otherwise viable companies, and several other people have other challenges.

It is over a week now that majority of British voters decided via a referendum that it was time to exit the European Union. The ripples from the outcome of the poll had not settled and there are signs they are not going to settle anytime soon.

They say a week, is a long time in politics. Well, in the UK, it seems like a lifetime way barely over a week, the UK held a referendum and over a million votes to leave the European Union. I wrote about this last week: Better in than out. Admittedly, no one was prepared for the seismic impact that followed when the UK decided to part ways with the EU. This has left a nation divided: the young versus the old, the working class and the graduates; South versus the North, British nationals and Immigrants, fanning the fear and muting exhilaration in some. The dust is beginning to settle and the political landscape is unclear as politicians jostle for positions and creating political turmoil and hara-kiri.

Last Monday June 20, 2016 one of the two pioneers’ for clean energy, Bertrand Piccard who took control of the cockpit of a solar airplane at 6.30 UTC from the JFK airport New York, cruised across the Atlantic Ocean without fuel and landed safely at Seville Airport, Spain Thursday June 23, 2016 by 05.38 UTC. The airplane named Solar Impulse 2 had a 71 hours 8 minutes uninterrupted flying time. The Flight 15 in the series of the first Round-The-World Solar Flights without fuel covered a distance of 6765 km, flying electric with solar energy of 1388 kWh, zero fuel and zero emissions. Piccard’s transatlantic adventure was anchored on research and development in aviation powered by the sun.