SOME compatriots say we wouldn’t know the real man we have as our president until the chickens come home to roost in 2023.

Back in 2010, rumors went abound that in a secluded place in Ibadan, the biggest city in Africa, children were being killed because their parents or the community at large considered this children as evil, mainly because they are twins or because they are born with physical or mental disabilities.

In times past when education was a luxury afforded only by the rich, communities and towns observe their children from early days, finding those who are remarkable, who at last, will through the financial contribution of the kindred and clans, be sent to school.

Before I go into my speech proper, may I please appeal to you all to rise and observe a minute of silence with me in honour of my late Assistant and dear friend, Mallam Umaru Njidda Pariya.

November 4 2019 was the posthumous birthday of Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu. The flurry of events and discourses around his birthday leave no one in doubt that even in death, Ikemba is still involved with the nation’s affairs. Expectedly, his roles, especially the events surrounding the civil war, are always a subject of debate on such occasions.