AFRICA was virtually absent in the League of Nations which was founded on January 10, 1920 following the First World War.

IN 1996 when the first phase of the Liberian civil war was ending, one of the warlords, Brigadier General Yormie Johnson (who personally killed former dictator, the late President Samuel Doe) wrote a pamphlet where he recorded his random musings about the war and his philosophical attitudes to some issues connected thereto. He titled the book: The Gun That Liberates Should Not Rule.

DURING Governor AbdulFatai Ahmed’s first term in office, between 2011 and 2015, an Audit Query was issued on the huge sums of money that Kwara state had hemorrhaged, through the incredible spending on such “bottomless pit” institutions like Bukola Saraki’s Zimbabwe Farms (‘domesticated’ as Shonga Farms); Advanced Diagnostic Center and the International Aviation College.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari easily provides a good example of a living realist who sees, and appreciates, things as they really are, devoid of all unnecessary niceties.

IN the United States, there is an entire movement based on the rehabilitation of prisoners (rather than their incarceration) as studies show two-thirds of prisoners reoffend within barely two years of leaving prison, often in a more violent way than whatever offence they were previously convicted of.