The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), one of the self- appointed custodians of northern interests, marked its 25 years of existence a couple of weeks ago. But there could be no clinking of glasses to notch the occasion, or celebratory pats on the back for milestone achievements. Instead, the anniversary came at the most inopportune and the most […]

Theirs were the voices, faces and names of the past, made famous by their profession. If, as they say, that the pen is mightier than the sword, then these people were mighty men of the 60, 70s through 80s. In their prime, they swayed minds and shaped opinions. They were there gathered, from Buhari’s Decree 4 […]

Back in the day, one of the most pleasurable moments of a friend was the take-off of a plane. He loved the sensation of a plane taxing off at a great speed and then gently lifting itself up into the air. Included in that sensation for him, was the feeling that earth bound burdens and worries […]

Last September, I travelled far into the hinterland of Benue State from Abuja by road for the burial of Chief Audu Ogbeh. It was a journey which took us over ten hours of barely passable roads through several settlements and domains – Tiv, Idoma and yes, Igbo. Although we went in a fortified convoy like […]

2.8 Billion Dollars is still a lot of money today. But it was worth lots more some four, five decades ago. So you can understand the uproar when it was alleged that a sum of 2.8 Billion Dollars went missing in the books of NNPC (NNOC at the time) during a Military Government, and specifically, […]