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        Edo Ministerial Nominee Momoh Hendrix Oliomogbe The long wait for the list echoed Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot". Godot continually sent word that he will appear but never did. The long wait, this time by President Bola Tinubu finally ended on Thursday July 27. It was just a few days shy of the mandatory 60 days to unveil members of the Federal Executive Council, when former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajiabiamila and current Chief of Staff to the president casually strolled to the National Assembly with his portfolio. He promptly opened it and delivered the all important signed and sealed envelope to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.  Without much ado, Akpabio unsealed it. One could have heard a pin drop when the Senate President reeled out name after name of the ministerial nominees on Thursday July 27 right on the floor of the red chambers. Many Edo people were certainly caught off guard. Abubakar Momoh for Edo? He was f...

Hendrix Oliomogbe   At 70, he has no doubt ran a respectable race, kept the faith and fought a fair fight for the least privileged. No hurdle is too high to scale in his long run for the emancipation of the poorest of the poor. Tucked in an obscure corner of an existentialist world, right on the fringes of life, the society certainly does not care about their plight. In a cold and cruel world where the crude law is eat or be eaten, they have to learn to fend for themselves or fall by the wayside. For Mr. Chris Omusi, reaching out and touching the lives of handicapped people to make their world a better place is his lifelong passion. He is ever ready to exchange all the gold and silver deep down in his pocket just to be in the company of the wretched of the earth. Not even their stigmatization, stereotypes and prejudices could hold him back. Their company gives him immense joy. Only few Nigerians have a warmer soul than Omusi, the founder of Project Charilove, Benin who woul...