ONE of the side effects of being a population with an acute experience and understanding of injustice has been the sense of entitlement these feelings produce. Successive governments had little impact, so we began to feel we were owed everything, whether we were ready to contribute and work for those advantages or not.

OUTSIDE the circle of immediate family members one ‘guardian angel’ whose intervention was crucial to the birth of this column is the one generally called ‘Baba’ within the fraternity of Nigerian writers, especially the ‘younger’ ones.

WHILE I join other well-meaning Nigerians to condemn in the strongest terms, the recent insensitive,wicked and punitive increase in the price of petrol to officially N145 per litre,I have to tell all those who have called on me to be part of providing leadership for resistance to the measure to perish the thought.

YENAGOA- FOURTEEN-year-old Miss Ese Oruru, aka “Government Child,” looking wild, March 2, when she returned to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, from where she was abducted, six months earlier, by Yunusa Dahiri, aka Yellow and taken to Kano and forced into early marriage, has reclaimed her serenity, and is now in the third trimester (40 months)of her pregnancy.

PORT HARCOURT— MORTAL fear has seized the people of Rivers State since last week when armed marauders murdered five police officers, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Muhammadu Halidu and six civilians at Okobe in Ahoada West Local Government Area.