AT a recent private engagement with the media, a prince of the Sokoto caliphate, former aide de camp to former President Ibrahim Babangida and current National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) lamented that terrorists have succeeded in changing the way Nigerians see and relate with each other but observed the only way to defeat them is for all of us to remain united in constructive engagements and mutual dialogues and confront their threat as one united nation under God.

THERE is no argument that Nigerians are coming to terms with the realities of terrorism, but what many do not know is that their seemingly safest haven may be the softest target of terrorists.

ON the political chessboard, moves and counter-moves are sometimes so furious in pace as to confound bystanders and interested democratic watchers. The unpredictably turbulent political space in Edo State presents even more complicated and sphinx-like scenario.

THE above statements came from an exchange between two users on a social network medium to express their opinions on the outcome of the Ekiti governorship election, which Ayodele Peter Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, emphatically won. As inappropriate as their language may sound, nobody can capture what has just happened in Ekiti State any better.

THE Ekiti State governorship election has come and gone. The result has caused serious shock waves amongst some of us, but to others like me, it did not come as a surprise.