For many, he was the face of judicial activism. While the likes of Alao Aka-Bashorun and Gani Fawehinmi were doing their thing from the Bar, the late Honourable Justice Bobakayode Eso represented the radical, nay progressive wing of the judiciary sparing no nonsense.

How best can one pay tribute to the memory of the great Oloye, the undisputed king maker of Kwara State and former Senate leader, the late Dr. Abubarkar Olusola Saraki, the Waziri of Ilorin?

The major focus of the GCPP, according to Dr. Lartey, is African liberation and economic improvement of Ghanaians and he intends to achieve this by focusing on three major areas – energy, agriculture and job creation “The strategy of the GCPP is not about political power but rather economic change,” he said.

Alhaji Lam Onaolapo Adesina,Oyo State governor from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2003, passed on to glory on Sunday, 11, November, aged 73 years. Lam rose to the pinnacle of all his callings in life. He got to the zenith of his career as a teacher; as a social crusader, he got state recognition and was tagged a ‘prisoner of war’. Politically, he did not only realize his ambition of becoming the governor of his state, he achieved the extra ordinary by installing a governor, not while in power but eight years after he had left office.

Maize in Ekiti is not as valuable as yam which gives them pounded yam or, better still, cash crops like cocoa or kolanut. But maize is an important crop in Ido-Ekiti. History has it that in the days of old, the people of Ido made a fortune from maize.