To many Nigerians, leaving the country to foreign land is the solution to the myriads of problems debilitating the country. But unknown to many it has been a harrowing tales of anguish. This is what Emeka Mark Edeson, a German based Nigerian of Igbo extraction captures in his new novel titled Echo of Silent Wishes.

Gus was exhibiting a sense of injured pride. He felt like a man who had accomplished his mission well and acquitted himself diligently and elegantly, and then, just in the last step and moment, was now being forced to experience an embarrassment that was totally avoidable.

Two Sundays ago was the anniversary of the devastation that the world would rather forget. It was 10 years ago and the world has not allowed itself to forget.

Have you been working night and day by your own power, without any positive result? Have you been depending on your university degree thinking that it is what will give you all you need? Hear this: Just one encounter with God is much more than a lifetime of struggles and efforts. Every day is God’s day; the day you believe is your day. God has more than enough resources to meet all the desires of every living being (Psalm 145:15-16).

Shareholding in Nigeria has grown from a few thousand people in the early 70s to an estimated 10 million. The privatization program has had tremendous impact on share ownership. Between 1989 and 2005, 40 government-owned companies were privatized.