Obnoxious evil can pass by you unrecognized. A loved relation was brutally dispossessed by death, not once, twice. He lost his sons in succession and mysteriously.

A friend just came back from the burial of a 60-year-old man, but that is no news, sadly: Many people are dying these days without getting to a ripe old age. The gist is that the man was never married in his lifetime. Even though it is not a crime, many Nigerians view it as an aberration for a 60-year-old man to be single. It is very difficult to explain or justify. (This, of course, excludes priests and some religious personalities who have taken vows of celibacy).

Nigeria’s top musical brand Onyeka Onwenu, is always in search of innovation far ahead of her closest rivals, but when you come to think of it, who are her rivals? They probably don’t exist, because she is the lone ranger who is always important in the entertainment mix of the country and always ahead of the competition.

WHERE Azikiwe preached political inclusion and strategic integration, his political opponents preached exclusion based on historic difference. The defeat of the Zikist vision of nation was the ultimate Nigerian tragedy; in its place have triumphed the Awoist and Sarduana models of Nigeria, in which “the North is for the North, and the West is for the West, and Nigeria for all of us.”

Sixty years ago, in 1955, Barbara Mandell, a pioneering female broadcaster, made history by becoming the first woman to read the news on British TV.