The United States represents an act of will. It is not a homogenous ethnic nation. It is not the heir to some historic Empire or monarch. It is not a unified religious community. It is not a simple linguistic group. It does not have a particular cultural tradition reaching back through several millennia ———W. Tapley Bernet [Jnr.]

Growing up was a terrible experience for Michael Uzoma Nnadozie whose childhood entailed fleeing from jet fighters and bombers strafing innocent civilians including children and witnessing the worst form of starvation.

Motor Park economists say we are approaching El Dorado as Nigeria’s land borders remain shut. I know nothing about paper economics since most practitioners say different things each returning day.

Pick up your books, fellow Nigerians, the debate is on. Many of us spend time making money and doing politics even some teachers hardly read so they cannot write to give us new Wole Soyinkas, Chinua Achebes, Keneth Dikes and Jacob Ade-Ajayis.

Your name says so much about character and reputation small wonder people who do not feel comfortable with certain tag do identity surgery as a departure from the past.

We cannot go to bed until Samson Siasia gets a fair deal from the Court of Arbitration. If FIFA says the Nigerian is as black as granny’s kettle then I dare say the World soccer governing body is darker than all pots in Yenogoa.

We cannot go to bed until Samson Siasia gets a fair deal from the Court of Arbitration. If FIFA says the Nigerian is as black as granny’s kettle then I dare say the World soccer governing body is darker than all pots in Yenogoa.

Nigerians find it difficult to quit office even when humiliation and suspicions stare them in the face. Chief Oko Ebitu Ukiwe kept his head high and walked away as No.2 in 1986.

One young officer who understood his teacher well enough was Murtala Mohammed. As a cadet at the Regular Officers Special Training School [ROSTS] Teshie, Ghana, he emerged tops in Captain Emeka Ojukwu’s Tactics class.

Nollywood best describes the situation in Nigeria, a country where anything goes. Afrobeat musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, captured the contradictions early enough and was dismissed as a nonconformist by some of those in power.

This sports minister comes with a lot of difference. Sunday Dare must not fail because so much is expected of him. So far, there are no strictures from anyone and the man’s first outing in Morocco was not bad at all.

Quite unfortunate how 77 young men who joined the fast lane will keep Nigerians busy in the next couple of days as America’s FBI synergizes with the EFCC in the bid to turn in some of these fast fingers.

Carl Gustaf von Rosen was born on August 19, 1909, in Sweden. He is best remembered as the humanitarian pilot who joined Biafra for free-flying relief material to Uli airport on a DC-7 from Sao Tome and eventually raising a squadron of fighters.

There is one part of General Ibrahim Babangida that should be studied in military institutions around the country. While he is best remembered for annulling the June 12, 1993 elections we must also salute his wisdom that saved several lives on February 13, 1976.

Someone poked a joke recently about Governor Nyesom Wike’s building a Press Centre in honour of Chief Segun Osoba somewhere around Olu Obasanjo Road, Port Harcourt. I reminded him that hip hop star, Duncan Mighty, must also do a remix of his Port Harcourt boy track.