Life is but a chapter of mysteries which every known religion in the world offer satisfying and never satisfactory answers. The complexity and intricacies of life make it a difficult subject and one that is obviously beyond the ken of mere mortals. Obviously, the capacity of the human brain and mind to capture, in any proportion, the mysteries of life is not just limited but grossly inadequate.

The just concluded examinations (UTME) conducted by JAMB on prospective candidates into universities has unfortunately become another tool in the hands of federal institutions under the APC administration to continue to attempt to humiliate Ndigbo in every area of their success in order to futilely make them appear as villains rather than as the victims of a jaundiced system maturing into a malignant cancerous entity.

BETWEEN January 1966 and September 1999, the military politicians who ruled Nigeria for close to 30 years – from Aguiyi Ironsi to Abdusalami Abubakar – introduced unitary features that were inspired by their military culture but were inconsistent with the features of the negotiated federal system introduced in 1954.

WHEN Governor Henry Seriake Dickson took over governance of Bayelsa State in 2012, at a time when the state was the hotbed of militants, the first thing he did was to declare a state of emergency on education. The decadent state of education – especially at the primary and secondary education levels at the time compelled him to do that. Also, there was no single boarding secondary school in the state. This was exactly the situation Dickson found the state and decided to attack the problem frontally.

IT was 1990. A bloody coup attempt had taken place on April 22. At a point, nineteen journalists were detained in connection with the coup but after negotiations with the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Babangida regime, Brigadier General Haliru Akilu, some had been released.