A WEEK ago, I wrote a piece, “Lunacy and bloodbath in Turkey”. It was my analysis of the Turkish government’s insane reaction to the July 15 attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In 1999 after fortune shone on the ill-fated political ‘prisoner’ who was fated thereafter to be President, General Olusegun Obasanjo was as greenhorn as political rookies can get when he grappled with the task of shedding the regimentation of garrison life in order to fit into the messy affairs of the ‘democratic process’. And worse still when he faced his baptism of fire at an even messier turf, the ‘legislative arena’. This is the one arena in a democracy that fatalists describe as a mystery ‘machine’ through which members of the executive pass usually as ‘pigs’ but always come out as ‘sausages’.

Once again, we are reminded of the need to put in place, good residency laws. This time around, the reminder comes from a foreign land. Paul Le Guen is a French national and a world-renowned football coach. He parades very tall credentials in this respect.

When we were growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there were many items on radio and television and around us that helped us to grow into what we have become today. The television itself was archaic.

JUST days after he left office as the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase was all but declared a thief by his successor as IGP, Idris Ibrahim. It was a bizarre and most unexpected indictment that gave one the impression that something must have been fundamentally wrong in the relationship between Arase and Ibrahim.