1964 was a momentous year for the Labour Movement; it was the year multiple general strikes were held. Labour leaders openly called for the overthrow of the Tafawa-Balewa government, with some trade unionists actually planning a coup d’etat.

ALHAJI Ali Chiroma was the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at the worst possible period in our history.

At a trying time like this, there are two things President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan needs – patience and good luck. Patience in that he would need to wait till after the US elections to know whether that country’s government would change its position on designating the Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna Lidawati wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, as a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANISATION, FTO; and good luck, that things don’t spiral out of control before then.

When people are sick, they go to hospital for medical attention, but, in the case of Abubakar Buba, a native of Maciyar Kuka Village Bununu district in Tafawa Balewa local government area of Bauchi state, he was sick and went to hospital. But his condition deteriorated instead of improving.

Since the struggle for the actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra began, one personality that had been synonymous with it was Chief Ralph Uwazurike, leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.