“In my next administration, I’m hoping to first of all solve the problems from the source. You will remember I was talking about the US system which countered the negative effects of unemployment by establishing some institutional cushions to alleviate the poverty and the sufferings of the poor, the unemployed, the youths and their retraining programmes, and of course the provision of power

By Emma Okocha Inside the Kirikiri base of the Vanguard Regiment …enter the Adjutant-General, Major Olabisi Olakankita, Major 419 Oboh Utueke, Col. Naira Abubakar  the GSO, General One Leg Atamuma, veteran officer of the regiment, Prince to the Royal House of the Kingdom of Igallaland, and quickly taking charge of the parade and gleaming in […]

Last weekend, the biggest resort and business centre on the river, linking the states of Virginia, DC and Maryland was host to the 2009 Anambra mammoth US National Convention.

“Colonel OlufemiOlutoye and Brigadier Adebayo represented the West, Brigadier Imo, Colonels Effiong, Eze and Ude the East, Colonel Martins Adamu the North, Colonels Nwawo, Okwechime, Nwajei and Samauel Ogbemudia represented Midwest.

The Asaba Massacre of 7th October, 1967 and other incidents of killings of civilians in Asaba Division

Mr. Emma Okocha in his book “Blood On The Niger” has with great skill and painstaking research told the story in some detail of the terrible and horrendous pre-meditated massacre of hundreds of able-bodied male citizens of Asaba on 7th October, 1967.

University of South Florida in Tampa, survived two frightening stampede, mid-day on Monday the 5th of October, 2009. On that day, a person phoned the university police, reporting that a bomb had been planted on campus. Some security precautions were taken, and later a person was arrested for making a false report.

‘’The Troops murdered innocent men, women, and children in their thousands from Benin to Asaba. Nigeria lost in few months university graduates, and many PhD holders… .Among them were Permanent Secretaries, Medical Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Professionals, Clergymen and Missionaries. It remains the only war of such magnitude without a monument of remembrance.’’
—United Nations Observer, Canadian MP, Stephen Lewis, London Guardian, October 11, 1968.

“On the grant of the Charter to the company in July 10, 1886, the man to whom Goldie turned to as Chief Justice was Sir James Marshall. The headquarters was at Asaba.’’ — Oluwole, T. S. Elias, Makers of Nigerian Law, Lagos 1963.

Admiral KKK Omoregie: (Removing his cap in respect) The Field Marshal of the Peoples army died in the field of action. Fighting all the way to end. Even though he was not captured alive by the enemy, his death at his time signals the end of an era.

America mourns the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, awash with all sorts of tender memories., the great lion of the senate is probably how most of his august colleagues and the nation will for ever remember him because of all his unyielding battles in the cause for social justice.

There was nothing artificial about this fourth WAAD conference , a powerful female dominated gathering of writers ,scholars ,thinkers, activists, bureaucrats and quite an exciting and even intriguing variegated spectrum of intellectuals from all over the world.

Founded right after the Civil War as a social outlet for the depressed Igbo business men and women who were dispossessed of their property and lost their businesses in the Civil War, from North to South, Okaa Social Club later renamed Peoples Club of Nigeria has withered the storm of maladministration over the years.

The British under Lugard perceived the north as the location of the superior race. Islamic religion of the so called finer race was a better regarded form of paganism than the fetish practices of the savage south.

Foolhardy, and perpetually risking his own personal interests, friendships, personal safety, etc, his courage to stand by the truth , and prophesy for his community are the intellectual arsenal disposed to him as he restlessly forages his environment, patiently creating new possibilities, seeking for new alliances, shifting and striving for new paradigms.

Col Naira Abubakar: General, you are an old soldier. You have not gone on any modern exercise ….have you been on any Peace Intervention Force where you are sent to Afghanistan, Somali or even Sudan? You might have fought the tough Japanese, the very organized and able Germans, but when you encounter the Talibans, you will not like the day you joined the Army.