The Abia State Government recently announced its plans to compulsorily transfer non-indigenes in its civil service to their states of origin. That is the meaning of “back-loading” which, according to the Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, is not the same as “sacking” them.

God, in His in finite mercies, has granted every individual special talent to live a life of success. I daresay if opportunities are expanded enough, everybody will be a celebrity. William Shakespeare (Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi and Wole Soyinka) wrote poems and thrilled people with stories.

NOW, the eyes of the world are on us. We have set a new, macabre world record, beating strife-torn, sectarian violence-wracked Iraq to it. Before the penultimate Friday bombing of the United Nations, UN, building in Abuja, the highest death toll suffered by the “world government” was 22 people killed. And that took place in Baghdad, Iraq.

The bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja by a suicide attacker (it was clearly a suicide attack) has resurrected the South South People’s Assembly, SSPA, or at least some of its elements.

THE top echelon of Nigeria’s Judiciary is in separate pieces, struck by a political hurricane. The three highest presiding officers – the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN and Chairman, National Judicial Council, NJC, Aloysius Katsina-Alu; the former President of the Court of Appeal, Ayo Salami and the Federal High Court, Ibrahim Auta, have been sucked into the vortex of this diabolical gale. The Judiciary, which is supposed to be the final bastion of our democracy and the last hope of the common man, is now in need of redemption because of a series of leadership failures.