THE University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Literature 301 (African Fiction) Class was weeks late in starting for the 1980/81 academic year. On the fourth week, the students had gathered as usual even before it was time for the class.

WHEN the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on November 1, 2007 laid the foundation stone for the construction of the 140 megawatts Aba power plant to be constructed by a private power company, Geometric Power Systems Limited, at the plant site in Osisioma-Ngwa, Abia State, not many Nigerians believed that the project would materialize.

All too often the state is tempted into activities to which it is either ill-suited or which are beyond its capabilities. Perhaps the greatest of these temptations is government’s desire to concentrate economic power in its own hands. It begins to believe that it knows how to manage business. But let me tell you, it doesn’t as we discovered in Britain in the 1970s when nationalisation and prices and incomes policy together deprived management of the ability to manage. And when we came to privatise and deregulate in the 1980s it took some time before these skills returned.

Life they say begins at 40, but for me, your life begins at 60. As a husband,your tender care, support and encouragement at all times, has proved to me and our lovely children that you are still very young at heart and with passion for love.

IN 2009, members of Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lid dawa’ati wal Jihad (Boko Haram) had cause to challenge the Nigeria Police for the alleged extra-judicial killing of their members for ‘refusing’ to obey a simple state law of wearing crush helmet while on a motor bike in Maiduguri.This snowballed to a global disgrace and threat to peace within the West African sub-region.

Plans to reinvent the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN raises dust in the Southwest as the hierarchy of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN allege it is another strategy of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to undermine it in its stronghold.

AT the twilight of the sixth session of the National Assembly, Patrick Obahiagbon (who represented Oredo Federal Constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP) switched platform in a bid to ensure his political survival.

WE need not be adepts in the art of synthetical hermeneutics and titular nomenclature to be able to put in proper perspective the ethical, physical, spiritual and structural builders of man’s god-like idiosyncrasies, mind and character.

When without any preparation, I jumped out of regular employment around 1978, it was clear I was headed for deep waters. At 29, it didn’t really matter, as I foolishly believed I could conquer the world even with my bare hands! But the reality was vastly different.

THE article with the above title by Johnson Momodu in the Vanguard of March 15 is indeed an interesting piece. Obviously, the author set out to glorify the person of Chief Anthony Anenih.