I have written extensively about the same disgraceful display of thuggery of our honourable lawmakers’ men and women, but, they are anything but honourable. Yes, I said it. But there are, a tiny minority who are honourable but the majority have tarred the few with the same brush.

Sam Omatseye’s piece in the Nation, “The Ghost of Biafra,” this past week adds to the growing discussion on the inevitable impact of the new secessionist movement in important ways. The kernel of that column is that Nigeria as a nation runs in vain from its obligation to effect closure on the Biafran experience. Omatseye, of course skirts certain issues, and fudges a few, including the important question he raises: “how could a people knowing that they did not have the arms still plunge to war against an overwhelming armed opponent?”

Let’s start this edition of Joyful homes with a prayer that God should visit us.

David Cameron is not a man who misses his steps often. I am sure also he is not one whose tummy is the abode of butterflies. If he was shy at the start of his premiership in 2010, he definitely out grew it. He is a man of confidence, assurance and in control of his emotions.

Most Nigerians do not know that the foundation of northern domination of the country was surreptitiously laid before independence by the departing colonial administration. The late master storyteller, Prof. Chinua Achebe, refers to Osei Boateng, a journalist for the New African magazine who, in a November 2008 cover story captioned “Nigeria: Squalid End to Empire,” carefully documented how colonial Britain manipulated Nigeria’s independence elections “so that its compliant friends in the North would win power, dominate the country, and serve British interests after independence.”