They are both retired military generals andseptuagenarians. They are both Grand Commanders of the Federal Republic. They both enjoyed the rare privilege of ruling the Giant of Africa for as many years as the greatest and best achieving American president ever had no privilege to surpass.

THE ongoing reconciliation exercise of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, came as huge relief to many of us, particularly those of us who believe that just one person has been saddled with governance in our state.

THE drive for a sustainable change and the expected gains recorded at each interval in the education sector in the recent past have remained transient and still mired in turmoil in spite of the good intentions of the previous administrations both for the sustenance and bringing the education sector to an acceptable level in the recent past.

The public slanging match between Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, two Army Generals that, between them, ruled Nigeria for 20 of its 50 years, summarises the heavy burden of curse under which the country continues to groan.

Before the landing of Glo 1 as Globacom’s submarine cable is called, in Lagos, the only undersea broadband infrastructure available was the SAT-3 which was jointly owned by several countries in Africa. Glo therefore single-handedly positioned Nigeria on the world technology platform.