The Cynthia Osokogu Facebook love saga came to a somewhat fitting climax recently with two of the accused persons standing trial for her murder being sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos State High Court presided over by Justice Olabisi Akinlade.

When President Muhammadu Buhari delegated the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to inaugurate the 24-man Committee on Constitution and Electoral Reform headed by Senator Ken Nnamani early in October 2016, huge question marks trailed the exercise.

THE official admission by the Federal Government through the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, that the leader of Boko Haram Islamist terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, is still alive and hiding in the Sambisa Forest came as a shock to most Nigerians who had taken it for granted that the military were now simply conducting mop-up operations.

Working relations between the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government has, most of times in the past eighteen years of our renascent democracy, been tempestuous, with the President Olusegun Obasanjo years being the most notorious.

FOR those who have wondered why the road linking the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) and the rest of Lagos through Oshodi remains derelict in spite of Lagos State and the Federal Government coming under the same ruling party for the first time ever, the recent exchange of accusations and counter-accusations between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos and Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), is an eye-opener.