Christians in Borno State comprise 45 per cent of the population but are, ‘like Christians all over the North, treated like a conquered people’ and are at the back of the queue when political appointments, professional jobs, school admissions, etc, are being dished out

NELSON Mandela, whose birth centenary the world marked this Wednesday, July 18, was a mortal. However, in a fractious world governed by class, racial, religious, regional, gender and numeorus other cleavages, it is almost impossible to find a person who is generally accepted by all as a hero and legend. This is the basis of    Mandela’s legacy.

MANY see a lot of wisdom in the Benin adage that at the mention of the whiteman, the white ant also gets jittery.

Roving across ideological boundaries and political time lines in search of where the political grass is the greenest;that is the new political ideology

In later years when I came to see more of him on television I realized he was one of the few that were gifted to write as they spoke