I declared for the APC in June last year in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State well before the party was registered by INEC. I formally joined the party, amidst great fanfare, on 7th February 2014 in my hometown Ile-Ife and I registered my membership on that day. The registration was done outside the Ooni’s palace and it was done in the prescence of the media, numerous party leaders in the state, including Hon. Rotimi Makinde, who represents Ile-Ife at the Federal House, and all the other key leaders of the APC in the state and Ife-Ife including Chief Akantioke and Alhaji Soko Adewoyin the former Deputy Governor of Osun state.

WHEN I arrived in London from Nigeria in 1982, one of the major challenges I had to deal with was the feeling of isolation – not seeing people who look like you.

WITH no intention of trivialising the ongoing war against terror elements and their faceless backers, I can boldly affirm that we are just inches away from ending the ugly reign of Ababukar Shekau and his team of criminals.

HONESTLY and sincerely I never believed there is endemic corruption in developed countries, including the United States of America, especially in politics and corporate world, until I read thousands of comments after the execution of Iranian billionaire, Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, over N2.6bn bank fraud.

CHIEF Theodore Ahamuefule Orji assumed office as governor of Abia State in May 2007, just 17 years after the creation of the state from old Imo State, a period military administrators were in-charge of governance for eight-years, while their civilian counterpart held sway for nine years.

IF there is one thing that terrorist organisations crave most, it is the publicity their violent actions generate.

THE principles of Benthamism and Aristotlelianism posit that “the prime and cardinal purpose of any good government and patriotic leadership is the pursuit of the greatest good for the largest member”.

IT says a lot about the disconnect between the House of Representatives and the state of the nation that at a time of tense concern about threats to internal security and territorial integrity, Speaker Aminu Tambuwal can only think of resuming the petty inquisition against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, that has ridiculed the legislators’ sense of purpose.

ONE of Africa’s greatest figures, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, coined the term ‘neo-colonialism’ to encompass the yoke of expectational burdens imposed on developing countries by elements from advanced countries or former colonialists.

BY the time the Chibok girls were abducted, it was clear to the whole world that the Nigerian forces, do not have the capacity to contain the Boko Haram insurgents and so, many countries volunteered their assistance.