MY study and research of Nigerian history made it possible for me to extricate myself from the lingering grip of the Biafran propaganda, which still retains a powerful hold on most Igbo minds. It gave me a new perspective on Biafra and the civil war, a perspective, remarkably different from my earlier viewpoint shaped through the distorted prisms of the Biafran propaganda.

THE clock is ticking fast and Bayelsans are already counting down to the governorship elections scheduled for February 11, 2012. The political bedlam that followed Governor Timpre Sylva’s disqualification from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries is fast fading out.

The Panama Canal, a 77-kilometre Ship Canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, is one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. From what I read recently, the builders of the canal faced enormous obstacles of geography, climate and disease.

Recently, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned some former governors, including Otunba Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, for allegedly misappropriating public funds while in office.

AFTER the deafening chorus of opposition that greeted the recent proposal by the Federal Government to deregulate the down stream sector of the petroleum industry, the truth is gradually emerging about the staggering and mind-boggling cost of sustaining fuel subsidy regime in Nigeria.

THE Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, otherwise called the Cabotage Law, was designed to empower Nigerians to not only own vessels but develop capacity in various spheres of shipping, which for years have been dominated by foreign interests.

Everybody wants to comment about the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria, especially the Boko Haram insurgency, but most people are uninformed about the origin, nature, manifestations or even the metamorphosis of a hitherto peaceful ideological sect into a violent insurgency.

ONE is constrained to comment on the weighty admission by the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that the late President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, supported his aspiration financially and otherwise pre and post – April 14, 2007.

ENOCH Powell argued in his Common Market: Renegotiate or Come Out (1973) that Britain must renegotiate the then European Common Market or pull out. Recently, Britain dared Ghana and Uganda for standing up as humans and defending civilisation against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the latter coinage only known to this very decadent age since Adam.

IT is heart warming that on the matter of deregulation of key sectors of the economy, there are references. A simple case is the telecommunication industry. Today, the country is better for it as every Nigerian now has access to telephony.