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The former Sole Administrator of Ifako-Ijaye Local Government Area of Lagos state, Hon. Babatunde Rajh-Label, popularly called BIQ, has lost his life in a fatal road accident. Rajh-Label, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), reports said, met his death on Friday, 31st May, 2024, on his way to his country home in Badagry. BIQ in his lifetime was a legal luminary and the Vice Chairman and Sole Administrator of Ifako-Ijaye Local Government. He as well served selflessly in several other capacities including Member of the Lagos State Committee on Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Schools, and as the campaign Director General of Distinguished Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan (Yayi).

In Africa, when a man loses his virility, he is subject of scorn, ridicule and disdain. Male impotence or infertility is not only disdained but tabooed. In a continent where child-making is almost an obsession, Africa couched a number of hurtful epithets for one who loses his virile member. Failure to get this critical member standing up leaves sour overtones of frustration, pain, social ostracism, stigma, marital instability, discomfiture and even sometimes, suicide. Among the Yoruba, virility victims are named Okobo. The rural Shona tribe in Mhondoro-Ngezi area of Zimbabwe could not stand the virility challenge. To ward off this evil spirit from their tribe, they deployed socio-cultural intervention strategies to ward it off. To do this, they devised indigenous systems of monitoring signs of impotence at infancy, puberty and even after marriage. Moyo Stanzia of the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, in her “Indigenous knowledge systems and attitudes towards male infertility in Mhondoro-

One year after being in the saddle, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be first person to admit that the ride has been bumpy. He is also the first to say he is unfazed by the turbulence as he remains  focused on the marathon of the next three years. The past year has been months of baby steps, months of laying the foundations for the next three years of canter. As Nigeria’s 16th President, Tinubu during his campaign for the office said he would make difficult decisions and that running the country would not be business as usual.  From day one, he sought to fulfil his promise, beginning from his earthshaking ‘subsidy is gone’ announcement at the Eagle Square, on the day he was sworn in. The announcement reverberated round the country and beyond. He was not just actualising a promise he made, he was also   effecting the consensus of all the major candidates in the 2023 election that the several decades old, wasteful subsidy must end. His administration  followed this up with the decision t