Onochie Anibeze and Tony Ubani, Group Sports Editor and Sports Editor of the Vanguard respectively accepted my apology for not being able to write during the Nations Cup.

Tribute From Oludotun Malomo
I am now seeing the fruits of your labour at the Yoruba Constitution Group along with other patriots coming to fruition. The work for self-determination, the frequent trips for the Igbimo Omo Oduduwa meetings in Ibadan.

Perhaps that was why in an essay by someone calling himself “a Noble Writer” derisively announced that “Law is injustice codified”. He might have a point. However, granted that it has become almost universally accepted conventional wisdom that “the law is an ass”, reasonable people, who hold the view that the law should be an instrument to serve justice, expect magistrates and judges to ride the ass and not crawl, on all fours, with it.

During the recent fuel subsidy controversy, the government side rightly challenged Labour to name any item other than fuel whose price had remained unchanged since 2007. It was probably a strong point but the truth is that both the government and her people have the same attitude towards petroleum which in this piece we simply call ‘petroleum mentality’- a mindset which devalues an otherwise precious item.

Two weeks ago, the political leaders of the South-West and the South-South geo-political zones met with the president and demanded even more emphatically for the conveying of the Sovereign National Conference. It does seem that the president allied himself with that call. And that is a good thing.