She still finds it hard to believe that the lives of innocent Youth Corps members could be terminated simply because of the outcome of a general election. Dr. Lady Gloria Chuma-Ibe, Director for Exhibitions & Museum at the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization- CBAAC in Lagos, strongly fears that this sudden loss of value for human life could degenerate into an uncontrollable national crisis if not addressed.

MR. Raoul Angelo is Forever Living Products top distributor in Cotonou, Benin Republic. A former staff of Diamond Bank, Cotonou, he resigned from the bank, five months after marketing Forever Living products, a decision he never regrets. In this chat, he says people are understanding that they need to be masters of their lives.

Although this enthralling book is classified as “Teen Fiction”, Nwokeji explores the age-old problems of poverty and dreams now compounded by child labour and the new wave in crime, kidnapping, through Ike and his brother, Emeka. The book opens with the exposition of the fundamental truth that, as in most other things, there are various levels of poverty:

Not too long ago, I had been on my way home from a land so very far away. My journey each way included 2 rather long haul flights, two 3 hour stop overs and then a 4 hour drive before I would eventually be at my destination.

Poor Bankole. Victim or villain, scapegoat or sacrificial lamb, it does not matter anymore! He is already in the blender! Just don’t ask, ‘when will they blend him?’ Putting ‘accused’ persons in the ‘blender’ is about the worst our anti-corruption agencies have done! -they raise all hues and cries; they conjure the planetary winds and just when all the necessary tempests have been properly invoked, the ‘eagle’ descends from the troubled skies, and with its powerful tendons lift the prey.