A DEAR friend, Professor Ogwo E. Ogwo, last week forwarded an interesting article he saw on the pages of The Guardian of London to my mailbox. It was written by Nigerian-born literary legend, Professor Chinua Achebe and entitled: “What Nigeria means to me”. I had not even completed reading it when I decided I was going to write a rejoinder discussing what Nigeria means to me against the general flow of Achebe’s reflections.

The tenacity of the pro Yar’Adua cabal to hold onto Aso Rock through whatever means must be a testimony to the sweetness of power! Under normal circumstances where political and public offices are geared towards the service of the people, there will be little or no personal gain in capturing power or its retention.

The Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr Eugene Odoh, has condemned the slow pace of rehabilitation of the Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriage ways.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan Sunday promised Nigerians that himself and members of the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF) will at all time do that which is humanly right, in terms of good governance, geared towards the economic recovery of the country.

Conrad Hilton is the world’s best known innkeeper. Through spectacular rise from being the proprietor of the Mobley Hotel in Cisco Texas—a petroleum boom town— he became the world’ statesman of international hospitality. Conrad Hilton relocated to Cisco Texas from San Antonio shortly after his service in the U.S Army.