IT was Shakespeare in one of his philosophical treatises who asserted that “ambition is made of sterner stuff”. In this brief quote lies the philosophical underpinning of any aspiration or ambition for power that is worthwhile.

I AM not too sure if the President is conversant with the modus operandi of a “Fifth Columnist” in any organisational structure, mostly in government. Because if he does, he would have been able to detect that a fifth columnist is at work in his government. Recent events are pointer to the full metaphor of this “killer squad” going by that name.

THE spiritual space over Nigeria has become heavily polluted, indeed rather putrid in the recent times. This is with regards to the wanton destruction of lives and property characterising the trend of Boko Haram insurgency in the North of the country and elsewhere.

EXPLOITATION and exploration of solid minerals are governed by The Nigerian Minerals and Mining Act 2007 (“the Act”) which was passed into law on March 16, 2007 to repeal the Minerals and Mining Act, No. 34 of 1999. The Act vests control of all properties and minerals in Nigeria in the states and prohibits unauthorised exploration or exploitation of minerals.

THESE are not the best of times for the All Progressives Congress, APC, and this should concern all progressives in the country, from the real to the latter day ones like Governors who have come into the APC and bequeath the party with nothing but crises. From Lagos to Edo, from Kogi to Katsina, there are crises everywhere; the generality of the youth in the party from the Northern part of the country are no longer sure that the beloved General Muhammadu Buhari will get the presidential ticket following a selfish machination put together by the so-called Yoruba leader who misfired by hurling invectives at all but three of the traditional rulers of his tribe.