THE fact was established that Ahmed Bola Tinubu, through very uncommon and legendary display of political wizardry, put together the All Progressives Congress, APC, almost single-handedly – a feat not too rampant in the annals of political parties formation in Nigeria. The only person who could be accommodated in the arena of this type of feat would be the late Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari sits atop a government that is very divided. The administration is apparently in confusion with close members at war with one another.

In 2013, China’s president, Xi Jinping, proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road (The Belt and Road). Essentially, the “Belt” includes countries situated on the original Silk Road through Central Asia, West Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

THE great French philosopher, Charles Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu was an eclectic writer. He started his writings innocuously enough in 1722 with a satirical offering: The Persian Letters, that made him quite famous within the French society. But his magnum opus was published twenty six years into his writing career, and that was his book; The Spirit of Laws.

RECENTLY, I was at a function which held at the events hall of the Government House Annex, Warri, on the invitation of a friend Mr. Emmanuel Okotie-Eboh, son of the renowned Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh family and chairman Itsekiri Development Congress, IDC.