Last Wednesday, Mrs. Amina Zakari, the Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) made a bold statement in Akure, Ondo State. On the occasion, she publicly disowned the April 11, 2015 House of Assembly election in Ilaje State Constituencies 1 and 2 of Ondo State, admitting that the election lacked credibility, in spite of the fact that the winners of the election were declared by the commission.

If you are a lecturer in any of the tertiary institutions and you have concluded the topics in your course outline, your students would likely ask you for topics to focus their attention on in their preparations for the upcoming examinations.

Mr President, permit me, even so late in the year, to congratulate you on your election as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, especially when that historic victory was premised on the promise of change. Granted the contents of the “Change Programme” were not fully spelt out, but, given the emphasis so far placed on eradicating corruption, it is fair to assume that it would also encompass “justice for all”.

There is a famous speech by the former British Prime Minister, iron lady Margaret Thatcher, she gave at her party conference in 1980: “If our people feel that they are part of a great nation and they are prepared to will the means to keep it great, then a great nation we shall be, and shall remain. So, what can stop us from achieving this? What then stands in our way?

Obnoxious evil can pass by you unrecognized. A loved relation was brutally dispossessed by death, not once, twice. He lost his sons in succession and mysteriously.