LAST week, the Suprem Court affirmed that Abdulfatai Ahmed, was winner of the April 2011 gubernatorial election in Kwara state. The verdict effectively closed the judicial challenge which followed arguably, the most keenly contested governorship election in recent history, in Kwara state.

POLICING the police is like engineering the engineer, which appears different from engineering his engine. Some have argued, though, that biomedical engineering may not differ qualitatively from toilet training, education and moral teachings – all of which are forms of the so-called “social engineering”, which in the main, has man as its principal object and used by one generation to mold the next.

SUDDENLY, the political atmosphere in the North has become active. It is no longer just the Boko Haram bombings and killings. Those who pride themselves as “Northern leaders” (General Ibrahim Babangida, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and their respective disciples) convened a meeting right on the heels of a series of meetings held by the 19 governors with the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar in attendance. At the end 10 standing committees of politicians, academics, professionals and businessmen were set up in apparent efforts to pursue “Northern unity”.

NIGERIA was again in the news last week for the wrong reasons following the murder of two hostages, Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara who had been held by Boko Haram for nearly a year.

ONE can rightly say that anybody who, in his or her lifetime, witnessed a blackman, Barack Obama, become the President of the United States of America and who also witnessed the glorious burial accorded Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has had a fulfilled life.