Some frown because he sports a wild and luxuriant beard, as though it were a crime to be devout and be a governor at the same time. The same people have applauded the bombshell of hair around Fidel Castro’s chin when he dared the world’s powers, enthroned a system and rallied a lowly people against capitalist interlopers. Castro’s beard was no believer of Christ or Allah. It is atheist and proclaims no god except the man who bore it.

Poland’s emergence as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council did not happen overnight. The effort started since March 2009 as Poland’s economic and political reform policies came under global scrutiny

Our leaders are certainly not ignorant of the historical trajectory from the past to the present. But they have egregiously chosen to defiantly scorn history.

Perhaps, the biggest wrong step of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, at the inception of the present administration, was its seeming inability to appreciate the dynamism of the constitutional provisions guiding separation of powers among the three arms of the government namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary under a democratic system.

WRITING on the Ilaje situation in Lagos, Ajose Kudehinbu, former Head of Service of Ondo State and prince of the Ilaje Aheri kingdom who spent his early childhood in Lagos, recalled that one of the several places Ilaje had occupied and which he visited with his father, growing up then, in the city was ‘Agege-Odo’, now Akoka and present site of the University of Lagos from where the original Ilaje occupants were evacuated to establish the University.