‘’The Troops murdered innocent men, women, and children in their thousands from Benin to Asaba. Nigeria lost in few months university graduates, and many PhD holders… .Among them were Permanent Secretaries, Medical Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Professionals, Clergymen and Missionaries. It remains the only war of such magnitude without a monument of remembrance.’’
—United Nations Observer, Canadian MP, Stephen Lewis, London Guardian, October 11, 1968.

“On the grant of the Charter to the company in July 10, 1886, the man to whom Goldie turned to as Chief Justice was Sir James Marshall. The headquarters was at Asaba.’’ — Oluwole, T. S. Elias, Makers of Nigerian Law, Lagos 1963.

Admiral KKK Omoregie: (Removing his cap in respect) The Field Marshal of the Peoples army died in the field of action. Fighting all the way to end. Even though he was not captured alive by the enemy, his death at his time signals the end of an era.

America mourns the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, awash with all sorts of tender memories., the great lion of the senate is probably how most of his august colleagues and the nation will for ever remember him because of all his unyielding battles in the cause for social justice.

America mourns the
death of Senator Ted Kennedy, awash with all sorts of tender memories., the great lion of the senate is probably how most of his august colleagues and the nation will for ever remember him because of all his unyielding battles in the cause for social justice. When the bell rang for the great [...]

There was nothing artificial about this fourth WAAD conference , a powerful female dominated gathering of writers ,scholars ,thinkers, activists, bureaucrats and quite an exciting and even intriguing variegated spectrum of intellectuals from all over the world.

Founded right after the Civil War as a social outlet for the depressed Igbo business men and women who were dispossessed of their property and lost their businesses in the Civil War, from North to South, Okaa Social Club later renamed Peoples Club of Nigeria has withered the storm of maladministration over the years.

The British under Lugard perceived the north as the location of the superior race. Islamic religion of the so called finer race was a better regarded form of paganism than the fetish practices of the savage south.

Foolhardy, and perpetually risking his own personal interests, friendships, personal safety, etc, his courage to stand by the truth , and prophesy for his community are the intellectual arsenal disposed to him as he restlessly forages his environment, patiently creating new possibilities, seeking for new alliances, shifting and striving for new paradigms.

Col Naira Abubakar: General, you are an old soldier. You have not gone on any modern exercise ….have you been on any Peace Intervention Force where you are sent to Afghanistan, Somali or even Sudan? You might have fought the tough Japanese, the very organized and able Germans, but when you encounter the Talibans, you will not like the day you joined the Army.