KEN SARO-WIWA was the pipe-smoking Ogoni writer and rights activist. He had a small physical carriage. But each time he sneezed, Nigeria the behemoth caught cold. So when asked why the small ‘unarmed’ man from a minority tribe would discomfit a giant, he would fire back aggressively: “What do you mean? What has size got to do with it? Size has little to do with it!”

AN Online news report of Sunday 28th November, 2016 carried the headline: “Militancy pushes government to turn to Niger oil”. According to the report, “The federal government has planned to construct pipelines from Niger Republic to Kaduna refinery…the NNPC confirmed that this was ordered by the President”. It went further, “The federal government has finalised plans of the construction of a 1000kilometre crude oil pipelines from Niger Republic to Kaduna refinery…”

General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, the famous ex-Marine and the hero of countless conflicts and wars, has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump as his Secretary of Defence.

Having practiced this profession for more than 25 years directly, I am often very reluctant to join issues with publications in the media even if it affects what I am doing. Instead, whenever I find some inaccuracies in facts and presentation I try to provide information and background for the sake of future presentations.

THE Christmas season is here. In no other part of the country is the Yuletide celebrated as much as it is in the South East and South-South (the heart of Nigeria’s Christendom). It is a time when a chunk of the Igbo Diaspora returns home for the annual communal and family reunions.