My friendship with Dr. Chuba Wilberforce Okadigbo (1941-2003),the Oyi of Oyi began in 1977 when I covered the proceedings of the constituent assembly. The friendship cemented fully when I covered the Presidential campaign between 1978 and 1979. So when President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari(90) appointed Dr. Okadigbo as a Special Adviser in December 1979, I made several attempts, as a friend, to visit him in his office in the then Dodan Barracks in Lagos which was then the seat of the Presidency.

IN this dispensation of “Change” , it is consoling that a personage like Dr. Osagie E. Ehanire is among the nominees for ministerial positions. As an accomplished medical doctor/surgeon he has distinguished himself in the medical profession and politics.

The well publicised denial of Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, APC’s godfather, kingmaker and supremo, of having anything to do with a purported conspiracy between him and the president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, against President Buhari for which the presidency was said to have placed the former governor of Lagos State under security watch, was laced with poison and betrayed the seething emotions of a man who is upset at the sailor of the ship he built but which has left him behind at shore without consideration that he is fast sliding into a lonely lurch.

When on the 16th of Ocober , 1960, Chief Victor Remilekun Fani-Kayode and his delectable wife, Chief Mrs Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode gave birth to a son after their royal lineage and named him David Oluwafemi Fani-Kayode, little did they understand the enormous divine implications and assignment they placed on the shoulders of their lovely son.

Today, we live in a new world, where thoughts are gagged by the fear of being labelled wailing wailers. Where five attacks take place in Maiduguri in less than 24 hours but we dare not talk about it. We dare not!

Recently, the Senate President and Chairman of the National Assembly, Senator Bukola Saraki officially inaugurated Senator Babajide Omoworare representing Osun East Senatorial District at the Upper Chambers of the National Assembly as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Business, one of the most powerful committees of the legislature as its responsibilities being the ‘engine room’ or ‘power house’ of the Senate involves the scheduling of the day to day order of motions, bills and other matters of/for legislative deliberations and debate on the floor

I have tried delaying the writing of this piece in the honest expectation that someone probably misquoted Chief E.K. Clark, when he reportedly publicly disowned former President Goodluck Jonathan.

AS  important as the advancements on the anti-corruption and anti-insurgency wars are, it is noticeable that weaknesses in the economy are happening at the same time. The new template which the President Muhammadu Buhari has been careful to put inplace, though it has delayed the appointment of ministers, will surely help the government to drive […]

There was outrage yesterday by supporters of the All Progressive Congress and people of Akwa-Ibom North- West following the National and State Assembly Election Petition tribunal ruling on the Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial election. Candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Inebehe Okori had approached the tribunal challenging conduct of the April election and declaration of former governor of the state, Godswill Akpabio, as winner of the poll.

THIS contribution has been deliberately delayed out of respect to section 285 subsections 29 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended.