Only political illiterates would not understand that the sustained agitation for a Biafra Republic which has seen weeks of protests across the South East is not a development that can be wished away.

Governor Aregbesola, went on to disclose to the people of the state, and Nigeria, that “Osun State received only N55m from the Federation Account for the month of September 2015.” For a state which had declared a monthly wage bill totaling N2.4 billion, this is not only frightening, it naturally leads to the question: from where will the state raise the funds to fulfill its obligations to its workers and others?

It would come as a huge surprise to Nigerians if anyone suggested that surplus money constitutes the greatest impediment to the creation of more jobs to enhance the quality of economic and social welfare of our people. Nonetheless, the constitutional custodian of money supply, i.e. CBN, would readily admit that the incurable presence of surplus money supply is actually the major challenge to best practice inflation rate below 2% and cost of funds below 5%, to successfully drive our economy.

I DO not think Nigerian coaches and players know my age. If they did, they would not have conspired to send me to my grave before my time.

I floated through the stores of a new mall opened in Abuja 12 days ago. It is sprawling; taking one side of the only water/river in Abuja.