Last weekend, I attended the 80th birthday celebration of Mr Ben Lawrence. It was hosted by his nephew, Nosa Igiebor, the CEO of Tell Magazine, a weekly news magazine that played a prominent role in the June 12 saga. The ‘party’ was all that I expected; a quiet get-together of veteran journalists—mainly of the defunct Daily Times stock—who had paid their dues to the pen profession.

I do not think the judiciary is on trial. I think corrupt judges are

There are many lessons to be learnt from the release of these girls. The first is from the BBOG advocates who refused to give up

The President advised all of us at the recently concluded Economic Summit to start patronising made in Nigeria products. I am sure many Nigerians in this harsh economic climate will not need too much prompting if the products are available and affordable. It is both patriotic and prudent to so do.

I have witnessed many Independence Day anniversaries in my time. Right from the very first one when as a little school kid, we were given small green-white–green flags and asked to line the streets. Later, we were given free lunch and freer time to indulge in our favourite past time of games and pranks. I didn’t know what it all meant then but I learnt—through my parents, teachers and the passing years—that it was the day we gained the freedom to govern ourselves as we liked.