THAT High Chief Tony Anenih is a great man is stating the obvious. This is a man I owe so much respect not just because he is an elderly man but because he has remained a highly principled man over time.

THE restoration of the Abuja master plan became a sing-song during the Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s tenure as FCT Minister. During the period, several buildings worth billions of naira were demolished for the simple reason of restoring the Abuja master plan and maintaining environmental cleanliness and sanity in the federal capital Abuja.

IF you are observant enough, you will notice him in markets – an ageing, cosmopolitan gentleman haggling with the market woman pricing pepper, fish, okro and vegetable oil. His age, generally 50 and above.

AS someone who very well knows that exaggeration diminishes credibility, I give it a wide berth in claiming that the vocal governor of the State of Osun in South West Nigeria, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, is doubtlessly a focused, clear-headed, and innovative political leader.

THE Goodluck Jonathan administration has just gained significant confidence of the power sector investment community with the signing of a range of industry and transaction agreements that pave way for successful generation and distribution companies to take control of the new corporate entities unbundled from the PHCN.

THE high sea piracy of the old Western economies, the buccaneer economies typified by American cow boys culture proved to the doubters a fact of life: that the sands heaped by one storm are washed away by another and the wealth stolen by one gang is quickly taken over by another gang and the security of life and property was like the words spoken in the wind.

ONE of the many things that that tireless nonconformist, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, did for Nigerian music was to change it from merely a medium for praising and ingratiating the rich and mouthing romantic platitudes to a medium for mass enlightenment and crusading against bad leadership and social injustice.

A NATIONAL Quality Policy, NQP, is composite, capable of touching all areas of national life positively and lastingly.

LET’S take a close look at the seat of government in France, Great Britain and United States of America, in comparison to our own- the Presidential Villa which we refer to often as Aso Rock in Abuja.

THE ACN is at best a relic of an African traditional cultural association which accords the elderly unquestionable loyalty and followership. And because of this, both Chief Akande and Chief Bola Tinubu have vigorously defended the lack of primary elections in the ACN.