Adulthood is supposed to be the period in our lives when we take full responsibility for our actions, our responses to other people’s actions and general well being. It’s that period of our lives when we determine who and what we are on our own terms. The choice of determining how we are treated is not ours as children but emancipation should ideally come at the onset of adulthood.

Since he retired from the army after occupying the position of the Chief of the Defence Staff, CDS, General Owoye Andrew Azazi has been enjoying his peace away from public glare.
But, in this interview, Azazi speaks on the amnesty offered Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government, the performance of the Niger Delta governors and the Jos crisis.

The title of our essay today appears contradictory or, at best, puzzling. How is it possible that something changes and still remains the same, when the very idea of change entails that that which has changed cannot be the same thing again? We know that reality, in all its diverse manifestations, is subject to flux.

Reflect on this irony: a young army captain helps to organize a military coup and supervises the liquidation of his commander-in-chief and the host governor, another senior military officer, of a region to which he was paying a state visit. The facts are bare: even in a military situation under a properly trained and disciplined military officer, a General must be accorded his full compliments even in death.

Former finance minister, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu is proposing what he calls a win-win formula in resolving the under-development problem of the Niger Delta.
Dr. Kalu who is also a former consultant to the World Bank and member of the Niger Delta Technical Committee said in an interview ahead of the Post-Amnesty Dialogue opening tomorrow in Warri, that the formula entails building up the region “like it should be”