OCHEREOME Nnanna’s write-up on Dr. E.K Clark published on page 48 of the Vanguard newspaper of Monday February 17, 2014 seem to fall into the category of the usual puerile, derogatory piece by some critics who delight in castigating the elder stateman for supporting President Goodluck Jonathan.

THE headlines have all been about news of the attack on innocent students of the Federal Government College, Buni-Yadi, in Yobe State by the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents.

THESE were the words of Martin Luther King Jnr in the heat of civil rights struggle in the United States of America, a struggle that led to the New America with a Black man in the White House today, an achievement that appeared impossible years ago.

PABLO PICASSO once said that “everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo’s statement might find expression in men of God who consistently tell their followers to always be students of dream.

THE inability of our leaders past and present to practice the Aristotelian concept of the pursuit of the greatest good for the largest number, altruistic commitment, failure to see the Nation, state and local Government Area as one constituency under their leadership etc has given rise to what sociologist call structural distrust, mistrust and fears.

THE senseless massacre of innocent students at the Federal Government College, Yobe, on monday February 24, 2014, has again brought to fore, the hopelessness of our defense capabilities.

MOST video sellers stock it; they know their customers who often are hooked to it, but no one discusses it, although everyone knows it is there growing, catching young converts and destroying them slowly. Religion pulpits avoid it for fear of offending membership, and the world is awash with it.

EDO STATE is unique in many ways, one of which is that it is the only state in the country whose governor is addressed as the Comrade Governor, drawing from his past as the number one Labour leader in the country.

THIS third and last letter on SLS [Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] and the missing fund at the NNPC is reaching you after the man has been suspended; albeit sacked, as that was the path Justice Ayo Salami, the former President of Court of Appeal, followed. Even at that, the suspension cannot down-grade the importance, in quantity of content, of this third letter.

THOSE in the legal profession knew from the outset that the 2007 Act of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was basically flawed by allowing the Governor of the Bank to also occupy the position of Chairman of its Board of Directors.

WHEN Sanusi Lamido Sanusi lost his job, and chose to head for Lagos rather than Abuja where he has a home, many did not read much meaning into it, until it emerged that he was to be received by the All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftains led by, none other than Mallam Nasir el Rufai, in posh cars made available by prominent Lagosians.

IN an interview granted to one John Alechenu and published at pages 48 and 49 of the Punch Newspaper of February 1, 2014, Professor Ango Abdullahi, a so- called Northern Elder and “power- must return to the North” die-hard, claimed that the Nigerian oil industry was developed with money from the North.

EITHER by happenstance, benevolence of nature or by purely divine design, Ndokwa nation is unique and of strategic importance to Delta State.

A prophet has honour except in his own land. This biblical axiom had dominated discourses for centuries breeding its own circle of ingratitude and irrational verbal outburst against even the unblemished in their own lands. Whenever emergent backlash is timely spotted like a submarine systemtically out of water, it is this biblical aphorism that is always summoned to soothe the minds of the unblemished frothing like dancing palm wine in the morning. I think it is time we intellectually subjected this saying ‘a prophet has honour except in his own land’ to gruelling interrogation since it is now lazily appropriated by phrase-mongers to darken the known phenomenal radiance of achievers all over the world. After all a snake seasonally casts off its skin to cope with the exigencies of its environment.

THE Vanguard newspaper editorial of Tuesday, 11 February 2014, page 18 Of Choristers, Hijab, Masquerades was an apparent attempt to put in perspective the disturbances that played up at the Baptist High School, Iwo in the State of Osun.