OXFORD University is in Oxfordshire which shares a common border with the Cotswold arguably the most picturesque and scenic part of England.

THE year was 1965. I was an innocent starry-eyed 13 year-old and Nigeria was in turmoil. It was the era of the “wetie,” when the houses of politicians and key public-figures were burnt down in the brouhaha that was then Western Nigeria.

Many people may not be happy with the achievements of Chief Lucky Igbinedion while he was governor of Edo State, but there are thousands of persons whose lives he has touched through charity. Since he left office in 2007, apart from attending to his businesses, the former governor has been busy giving help to the helpless in different orphanage homes in Edo State.

This is the story of how former President Matthew Okikiolakan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo and former Vice President, Turaki Atiku Abubakar, first met, and how their relationship blossomed before nose-diving over political ambition.

But for the May 14 declaration of a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan and the deployment of special forces of the armed forces, the police and the Department of state security to quell what clearly was an attempt to breach the territorial integrity of the nation, Nigeria would not have been one entity today.