WHEN oil was first discovered in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State of Nigeria in 1956, there was jubilation not only in the then Eastern Region of Nigeria but all over the country.

POLOBUBOR-as the indigenes would prefer to call it- is the largest Ijaw settlement in Warri North LGA. This sprawling community, albeit rustic, is located in the thickest of the Benin River mangroves.

As usual, the largely symbolic and valedictory 11-day tour of 10 African states, by the US Secretary of State, Mrs Hillary Clinton grabbed headlines and prime airtime on major media outlets across the continent. Mrs Clinton, ostensibly on her last tour of Africa as Secretary of State, delivered pulsating messages.

THE first time I met the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Alhaji M. D. Abubakar, as AIG Zone 2, I left his Onikan, Lagos, office without any iota of doubt about his ultimate ascension to the highest position in the Nigeria Police. Perhaps, I was divinely inspired to think that way.

Unlike the argument in the article written by Odimegwu Onwumere titled “Why T.A Orji will not thank God” which was published in The Sun newspaper of August 6, 2012, I strongly believe that Governor Orji has every reason in his life and that of his family and the people of Abia state to be always thankful to God for His infinite mercy, protection and guidance, especially with their liberation from the clutches of devilish syndrome called political godfatherism.

NIGERIANS should pay a very close attention to the on-going mediation efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan on the Jos crisis.

THE legislative list exclusive to the Federal Government in the 1999 Constitution is intolerably skewed in favour of the Federal Government. Nigeria is clearly a federal environment with three major ethnic groups, each with over 30 million people, populations that are singly more than half of countries of the world.

Against the backdrop of the low level development of the nation and attendant problems, not a few Nigerians have condemned the situation. In fact, renowned preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare, in the heat of the nationwide strike and protest over the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government on January 1, this year, described Nigeria as hell on earth.

The then Bendel State where I had my secondary school education in the seventies as an indigene, was the best in almost all the National Sports competitions held in the country at that time.

This, before some one starts to say ‘not again’, is not about me. Its about my egbon. Mr Mac Ovbiagele, a foremost advertising practitioner, and I dare say, one of the best in his generation—likes to do things by the book. I should know since I have known him for almost 40 years and I have used him as a sounding board for many of my projects.