A call from the Deputy Editor, Saturday Vanguard, Chioma Gabriel, changed my entire Thursday routine. Ordinarily, as a journalist, I would resume duty as early as possible especially as Thursdays are hectic production days.

DR. Stanley Nkwachinekenkwerenneyaemezula Macebuh, who passed on Saturday night, could aptly be tagged the progenitor of what has become known as the intellectual flank of Nigerian journalism. He could not have brought less to a profession in which he inspired many by his profound thoughts and an intellectual fecundity that permeated the media in the past three decades.

It is the case of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth as land tears two communities in Ebonyi apart.
Sometime between 1928 and 1930, the Ezillo community, now the headquarters of Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, had a communal dispute with the neighboring community of Ngbo in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state.

I love Nigeria and stand by everything that will hold us as one people and bring peace. There must be no sectional interest and no emotions. We must not let things go the wrong way. I’m proud of Nigeria. Nigerians must be proud of their country.

The intervention by the National Assembly into the succession crisis that bedeviled the nation upon the medical evacuation of President Umaru Yar‘Adua may have eased the tension in the country’s political space. However, outstanding issues arising from the procedure adopted in articulating the resolutions have also provoked the need for consolidating Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the nation’s acting President.