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"I do not admire Tinubu because he is a saint... I do not admire Tinubu because he is from the south... I do not admire Tinubu because he is a Yoruba... If I want saints, I will proceed to heaven not on earth... Every human is fallible (but) I admire Tinubu because... He saved Nigeria from the danger of falling into "one party state". He has nurtured many renowned National successors. He listened to the voice of the masses to surrender his personal ambition at the most critical moment.

The history of Nigerian aviation will be incomplete without the mention of ​Maiduguri and ​Kano city, where the first aircraft landed in Nigeria on November 1, 1925. It is exactly 90 years since the historic flights, involving three De Havilland DH 9A aircraft belonging to the Royal Air Force, RAF. Vincent Orange’s book, the “Coningham: A Biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham”, vividly captured the expedition. The air trip, led by the then Flight Lt. Coningham, began from Helwan (a town in Egypt) to Kano, with several stopovers with Egypt, Sudan and N’Djamena – then known as Fort Lamy. Excerpts from pages 44 to 46 of the book revealed details about the journey, including how the pilots played polo with Emir of Zazzau, Ibrahim Kwasau and how Shehu of Borno Sanda Kura offered them rams. “By 1925, interest was growing in the problems and possibilities of opening up the African continent to civil aviation. The French and Belgians had plans for their own territories and...

Some prominent elders from the northern and southern part of Nigeria have called on groups beating the “drums of war” and threatening the peaceful coexistence of the country to desist from such because it is “dangerous”. Rising from a meeting recently in Abuja, the group, under the aegis of “Nigerian Leaders of Thought” said the meeting was called over agitations and demands for immediate resolution of present and long-standing grievances particularly from states in the South East and South South, and their implications for the security and peaceful co-existence of all Nigerians.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan urging him to use the new Foundation he is establishing to engage in soul-searching and in reviewing his past actions. In the letter, dated October 12, 2015, Mr. Obasanjo also advised Mr. Jonathan to consider the Foundation as a platform through which he can heal his conscience and demonstrate penitence over his past actions. Mr. Obasanjo wrote the letter in response to an earlier letter written to him by Mr. Jonathan on September 22, informing him of his plans to set up a foundation through which he would continue to service humanity.