Back in 1999, on February 21, 1999, in this column entitled “TO MY BROTHER, DR EKWUEME”. I told the former Vice President, that “the PDP which you call my baby would be snatched from you” as a result of this strategic mistake and lack of political courage.

The most common definition is that of a condition or state of being that surpasses physical existence and in one form is also independent of it. In almost all the major religions the Divine is the one transcendental force that is both within and beyond the universe; its very foundation is a core of emotion/faith that continuously perpetuates its existence and longevity.

In The Guardian of March 25, 2010, two essays critical of the theory of evolution were published. The first one, written by “a teacher in Lagos,” Imelda Wallace, has the innocuous looking title “Science education and belief in evolution.”

The remarkable ways by which that contact has shaped the Igbo continues to be the basis of reflections by scholars – and increasingly by Igbo scholars who feel the powerful “urgency of now” to call attention to the intricate as well as intriguing situation of the contemporary Igbo of modern Nigeria, in its current relationship with nation and with the emergent world.

What Iwu was quoted as saying and which I challenged him in my piece in this column on March 25, 2007, to deny, made me write him off as a man who could be trusted to do justice to all manner of people. The phone on Uba’s table had been ringing, but he would not pick it because of the interview. Iwu, said the reporters there, burst into the room and discovered a team of journalists were there. He was quoted as saying, “Sorry sir, I didn’t know you were granting an interview.