Jagua Nana and jagua nana's daughter were his first two books that i read. My late dad must have bought the books for us from Odusote bookshop in ibadan.

I fell in love with the books, especially Jagua Nana's daughter.

cyprian ekwensi began his writing career with the publishing of 'The Leopard's claw in 1950'. The writing career spanned more tan 50 years, his last known book 'Gone to Mecca' was published in 1991.

cyprian Ekwensi, is a good Nigerian role model.

he is gone. may his sooul rest in peace.

I arrived at the Osun state house of assembly for a 21-day internship at a time the nation was rocked with scandals at the House of representatives at the National Assembly.

i should admit, my expectations were very low, you do not want to expect much from politicians, i said to myself, it is better that you set a low standard, so that you won't be dissapointed.

However, for 11 days, i have watched from the gallery, the robust debates and contributions from legislators at the ousn state house of assembly, i have been more than impressed.

Since inception of the current house of assembly on June 4 2007, the legislators have debated and passed into law 5 bills. This is at the rate of a bill a month, which is highly commendable.

To think that the house consist of 15 PDP members and 11 action congress members, then you will understand that this is not an ordinary feat.

speaking with the Majority Leader of the house yesterday, he believes that the experience of the speaker as a three-time legislator plays a large role in the effectivesness of the state parliament.

Just yesterday, the house of assembly passed into law, the more than 120 paes child right bill, after more than six weeks of deliberation.

Other bills that have been passed icnludes, the Osun state revenue generation bill, the Osun state emergency managment bill amongst several other.

The house sits 4 times in a week from Monday to thursday.

I want to use this opportunity to praise the osun state house of assembly and to also urge them not to rest on their oars in passing good legislation for the good people of osun state.

Yesterday, i watched from the gallery as 21 out of the 26 legislators at thhe osun state house of assembly looked through the clean copy of the child rights bill for osun state.

after which a motion for the third reading was moved and seconded, and the bill passed into law, currently awaiting the Governor's assent.

The journey till yesterday has been challenging and exciting. The Nigerian National assembly passed the child right bill into an act in 2003. Since then, all the states in Nigeria were mandated to adopt the bill to suit the needs of their people.

The bill has been at the osun state house of assembly since 2005. It was not passed by the last house of assembly.

since the inception of this current house of assembly, they debated the bill for 6 straight weeks until it was finally passed yesterday.

i am glad to have watched the process and in my opinion, i think children and young people in osun state will be the better for it.