Just 28 months ago, guns… guns…guns everywhere in the core Niger Delta region of Nigeria . The country was on the precipice of economic bankruptcy. The cold realities stared the then President, Late Musa Yar’ Adua in the face as the hostilities in the Niger Delta, the nation’s cash cow, raged on…

I have just read with rude shock and the unbelievable news of the death of Mr. George Onah, of the Vanguard Newspapers and my former detainee buddy at the Directorate of Military Intelligence Apapa, Lagos in 1997.

Notable leaders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have distanced themselves from the action of a former chairman of “harmonised state executive”, Mr. Dayo Soremi, who recently set-up zoning and disciplinary committees, describing same as fictitious.

“When you returned from the Ivory Coast, the crowds that received you at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, then at the Aba Stadium and at Nnewi have never been equaled in the political history of Nigeria. It was the return of the Peoples’ Great Hero, the return of their Eze, their King”.

THE Community Based Agriculture and Rural Development Project of the African Development Bank, has donated agricultural inputs worth N15.2 million to farmers in Adamawa.