The wretched nurseries of unceasing discord and the miserable objects of universal pity and contempt”. That was the way Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, one of the founding fathers of America described nations such as ours which were always hotbeds of political upheavals and conflict.

The wild jubilations which greeted the return of President Muhammadu Buhari from his long medical vacation abroad can at best be viewed from two standpoints.

As Levi was in the loins of Abraham when Melchisedec met him, so have we been in the loins of Christ from the foundation of the world

One thing is certain: the killing of Ndigbo in 1966 left very deep physical and psychological wounds on the Igbo, making them to begin considering seriously the desirability of creating an independent nation for themselves since their belongingness to Nigeria had been put into serious question by recent events particularly in northern Nigeria.

When last week the President of the United States of America created a new “Nambia” country in the African continent, we all laughed and questioned his intelligence