UNLIKE what is going on in the slow business of forming the Federal Executive Council so far characterised by a preponderance of elements of the older generation and the have-been, the kingmakers at Ile-Ife, Osun State, have opted to offer some lessons on how not to catch them old.

What did Abubakar Audu forget in Kogi Government House? This is a question any average Nigerian would ask of any candidate aspiring to be sworn in for a third term in any elective office, especially when such office in question rates as high as the gubernatorial platform

AS revealed by some recent newspaper reports, Nigerians are to expect yet another probe of the power sector by one of the two tiers of the National Assembly, this time the House of Representatives. This new probe, if and when it happens, would be coming at the heels of the probe of the same sector by the Senate, which had commenced on September 8, 2015, but whose outcome remains indeterminate.

LAST week, the Emir of Kano and immediate past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, roundly criticised both the monetary policies of CBN as well as the fiscal policies of the new Muhammadu Buhari administration.

This new fifth estate has decided that national decisions would no longer be screened on the ideologies of political parties but on the primary factor of their dream Nigeria. Any government that fails to recognize this would be taught that the people is the government and it is therefore guilty of treason.

Imagine that members of the 8th National Assembly had announced during the recent general election campaigns exactly how they were going to tear up section 308 of the 1999 Constitution (which protects the president, vice president, governors and their deputies against civil and criminal proceedings while they are in office) to grant their leaders immunity from prosecution for corruption and money laundering.

BIAFRA is not one of the problems besetting Nigeria. Those unable to appreciate this fact may require a dose of creative thinking. Nigeria’s stubborn thorn in the flesh is its adamant repudiation of the self-evident concept of the changelessness of change, upon which sits a crippling unwillingness to engage that same constancy of change. There are two random but famous declarations – one little remembered today, the other something of a mantra – that neatly wrap up the national antiparty to inexorable change and its management.

SINCE the return to democracy in 1999, we have had the same recurring decimal in our elections, which are the unending election petitions.

ADVERSITY can be turned into opportunities if only there is a determination to do it. As the quote above goes, adversity has the tendency to bring out the latent talents which would have otherwise remained dormant in prosperous circumstances.

The League Management Company (LMC) has no doubt done superbly well in the almost-over 201 League season, coupled with songs of praise from all and sundry, including me, for a well organized and a more focused league. Although, we have not heard much about new sponsors coming into the league, but the LMC have been able to create awareness by drawing more spectators to the stadium.