Anybody who thinks ECOMOG forces failed in Liberia is not being realistic. The ECOMOG forces went to stabilise Liberia and not to save Samuel Doe specifically but to make sure that some level of sanity came back to Liberia. If the ECOMOG forces did not go there at all, the level of anarchy that would have befallen Liberia would have been unimaginable. So, anybody who sits down to say ECOMOG forces did not succeed in Liberia is not being fair to the Nigerian Armed Forces. And remember that ECOMOG was on peace re-enforcement.

Perhaps, it may appear far-fetched to suggest that the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II had anything to do with the face off between members of Nigeria’s Senate and their House of Representative counterparts.

I worked locally and with international news agencies and I rode the first Mercedes Benz as an editor in this country. I was in Lagos one day when somebody came from Accra and offered me these things

THE lingering succession crisis at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, took a fresh dimension last week when the chairman of the institution’s Governing Council and former minister of finance, Malam Adamu Ciroma, resigned his position.

The venue of the meeting was packed full on that day with ex-militants and you could see them in various shapes and sizes and character. Saturday Vanguard overheard a policeman telling his colleague, “So, it’s this small boys that are causing fear for everybody in this country, look at that small one there, you won’t even know that he can carry gun, see how innocent he looks like, but, when you see him in the creek, he is a war lord as you are seeing him”.