After watching the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo in Benin City, Edo State, on TV live during his fact finding meeting with the good people of Edo state, I realised that he is totally not a Nigerian.

WITH this headline, any critic could conclude that this writing is late but not lost in the underlying effort of some laws in the land which are either duplicates or not too necessary. There are a plethora of them in the country which are mere paper works or an exercise in legal intellectualism. When the anti-sexual bill (to deal with randy lecturers in our universities) was passed into law by the Senate being his (Senator Omo-Agege’s) second in one year, much adulation was poured on him particularly in his constituency as a local homeboy. But my reaction was different not for its sagacious input but on the need for such a law. Shall come to this later.

WRITING about the needs of the Igbos or Igbo aspirations, whether in terms of what would make the Igbos happy (or unhappy), is not a difficult thing in any manner.

FOLLOWING an advert by the Ministry of Education on the 2017 – 2018 Scholarship Award Schemes based on the bilateral agreement Nigeria has with other countries, my daughter applied for consideration.

Permit me to begin the second part of this essay with a word from Dr. Shuaib Musa Zaria, who is a leading member of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and who is a close confidante and associate of Sheik El Zak Zaky, the wounded and detained leader of the Shiite Muslim community in Nigeria.