We must be learning from our past now. Those whose ears are still working, let them hear. This is time for reconciliation as blood continues to flow across the upper Benue. The East and Middle Belt will shake off the bloodletting of yore.

Edward Wilmot Blyden was born in 1832 to Igbo parents who were enslaved and sold to the new world. His place of birth, St. Thomas[now US Virgin Islands] did not stop him from holding on to his African roots. He relocated to Liberia, lived in Nigeria as one of the founders of Archbishop Vining Church, Ikeja and died in Sierra Leone on  December 12, 1912.

There is cheery news from the National Examinations Council [NECO]: Candidates are sure November/December Senior School Certificate [SSCE] results will be ready to enable them pursue admission into tertiary institutions in the coming session. Until August 2016, it was not always so.

Always at war but never apart, that is the story of Igbo-Yoruba ties. If they are not talking about rivalry between Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, there is debate on the role played by Emma Ifeajuna and Victor Banjo in the Biafra war.

Dead men do not see, that explains why Alhaji Umaru Abdurrahman Dikko is apparently unaware of happenings in the country today especially one big inexplicable mind game between two men who were fingered in his abduction 34 years ago.

Those who do not know History are forever condemned to repeat it-Will Durant.

Land of the brave, this is something you cannot take away from our country. We are ready to take anyone headlong irrespective of whose ox is gored. The story must not change at this crucial time.

Whoever killed the study of History in our schools has succeeded in distancing the younger generation from events surrounding their existence

Some Local government chairmen move about like lords. They have police escorts, they use siren and even enjoy more Personal Assistants than former Anambra governor

After decades of leadership failure there is no better time to begin the process of real development than now. It is strange that with all our human and natural resources, Nigeria continues to be led by politicians who care less about the future.

They nicknamed him ‘Air Raid’ simply because Col. Joe Oseloka Achuzia probably killed more Biafran soldiers than some Nigerian troops. He so believed in Biafra that soldiers who ran away from battle were summarily executed  by him.

I feel so proud of the NFF for the carnival I watched on television Monday night. The Award night clearly showed that soccer, if properly packaged, attracts as much glamour as Nollywood and music.

Without taking away anything from President Muhammadu Buhari, I think what his regime lacks is the intellectual capacity to tackle some of the issues crippling the country. Some of the people around him should at best be confined to their respective local government areas as comfortable pensioners.

Young Murtala Mohammed was barely 13 when  Cadet officer, Zakari Maimalari,  became part of Intake 10 of the Royal Military  Academy, Sandhurst, England in September, 1951. The former was at the famous Barewa College before joining the Army. The latter would later toe the same part.

The History of Nigeria since 1969 is about three men: Dr. Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. I will aptly describe them as President General, President and President at large. The trio constitute  the Presidium, even if we are not Communists.