Before the advent of the missionaries in Ekiti, we were told stories of the mythical goddess of Ikogosi where hot and cold water ooze out from the same source and at the same time. The natives worshipped the presumed goddess of Ikogosi warm spring. Pregnant women flocked Ikogosi where they applied the mysterious water to cure pregnancy problems. The warm water was used to cure guinea worms, a prevalent disease at that time. It was also used to cure eye problems, sores, body ache, stomach pain and different skin diseases.

It is no exaggeration that the evolution of modern Nigeria is inextricably tied to Great Britain. As former colonial masters of Nigeria, the most populous black nation on earth, the influence of Britain on the country’s national life is visible in multiple aspects.

My “June 12: I still remember,” article penultimate week elicited, expectedly, diverse responses. The annulment of the election and the consequent turmoil remain very emotive issues.

A MISTAKEN new dance of reduction, nameless in its taxonomy – as it cannot be named Owigiri, Filete, Egebu, Wabu, Wolowolowo or Agene in Ijaw or any other language – but carrying dance steps quaintly familiar – was recently created by Oweilaemi the uncrowned IYC president II. The echoes of this dance drawn from his celebrated two polices  of displacement and categorical pronouncement have been cleverly extended to the commander of JTF, Rear Admiral Apochi Suleiman, whose JTF has been branded the producer and supplier of the elixir for the endless illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. Because Oweilaemi, upon refined data scientifically analyzed, has discovered the illegal oil bunkering perpetrated by JTF in the Niger Delta, the discovery ingenuity, skill, of Christopher Columbus who discovered the “New World” of the Americas in 1492, and Mungo Park who discovered River Niger, pales in insignificance when juxtaposed with the discovery capacity of the IYC president II.

Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2018 Appropriations Law. The signing which happened on June 20 has generated a lot of controversies owing particularly to the observations which the president made at the signing ceremony, observations which were of great concern to patriotic Nigerians who wish for the country to run her processes as democratically possible as provided by our constitution.