Ever since his emergence as Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has been the undeserved target of mudslinging, character assassination, frivolous court cases, undue media trial, harassment and humiliation, propaganda, half-truths and outright falsehood among other shenanigans aimed at cowing and arm-twisting him to force him to bow to the whims and caprices of a powerful cabal operating with reckless abandon both within the presidency and the All Progressives Congress, APC, his only sin being that he contested and won the senate presidency against the pleasure of some self-crowned kingmakers, an action well within his rights.

The attention of the management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital has been drawn to a publication, titled, “Humanitarian Crisis and Top Level Corruption in LUTH” purportedly based on some bogus research authored by one Professor Dejo Olowu.

Yesterday, in what became an anti-climax, Honorable Bayo Osinowo declared to run for a seat in the senate, to represent the people of Lagos East – a constituency already enjoying credible repressentation by Senator Gbenga Ashafa. Surrounded by friends and supporters, Honorable Osinowo read to his audience a prepared speech that was rather uninspiring – while struggling to articulate anything close to a coherent agenda if given the mandate.  One would have expected a little more detail and rigor from a legislator who has served in the Lagos state house of Assembly for 15 years.  To say his declaration speech was disappointing is only to put it mildly.

If there is no hidden agenda, let these law graduates be admitted into the law school like their counterparts from other universities

Out of the 2.6 million people who fled their homes in fear of Boko Haram, 1.4 million of them were children, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).