The policy of encouraging Northerners to become professional soldiers bore fruit some years afterwards: some of the students Ibrahim Tako Galadima, Yakubu Gowon, Zakariya Maimalari and others, persuaded to enter the army, played significant roles in the consolidation of loathsome coup culture and military dictatorship in Nigeria.

The World Sickle Cell Day is on 19th of June. The wear red for sickle cell day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2008, to raise awareness about the sickle cell disease globally. Sickle cell affects us all directly or indirectly and it has affected and continues to affect many families who have lost family members as a result of the condition.

Nigerians below age 30 are obviously not old enough to know about the wonderful ruling party of the second republic known as the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). The elderly may also have forgotten much of the exploits of that party. But it has been the most miraculous of Nigeria’s political parties more notoriously famous than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that could not manage its ‘victories’ at the polls.

Welcome to a new week. This week, the Lord will surprise you in Jesus name.

I hope you were able to read the part 1 in my Parenting Etiquette series. As promised here is the continuation. Keep reading!