ON June 8,1997, one of Nigeria’s erstwhile Heads of State and military chief, General Sani Abacha, passed away in Abuja, the nation’s capital. General Abacha passed on whilst still in office as Head of State. The place of Gen. Abacha in Nigeria’s military and democratic history can scarcely be over-emphasized. He was one Nigeria’s finest military officers.

THE Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, is a creation of statute and known to the Nigerian law. It is an umbrella body of all lawyers called to the Nigerian bar.

I LOST my best friend after he suffered complications following a surgical operation of this nature, 20 years ago.

EVERY 12th day of June since 1993, a notion that has surprised the detractors of Nigerian unity has been, re-enforced and commemorated. On that day and for several months succeeding that date, Nigerians as a collective stood behind the notion of their sovereignty and its symbolism in the personification of Chief MKO Abiola.

THE above is a question directed at Igbo brothers and sisters involved in partisan politics. I have learnt over the years that when you ask a politician (your friend whose views were in-tandem with yours before he became an Honorable or Distinguished) a question he cannot answer, the response you will get is: “You would not understand”.

IT is tragic that those who are expected to play a stabilising role in our polity have turned themselves into malignant sores on our political landscape.

ILORIN, the Kwara State capital, is somewhat home to me in the sense that the University of Ilorin is my alma-mater and I still relish those good, old days in school. And even though I am not an indigene, I unilaterally awarded myself indigene-ship of Kwara State.

THERE is a frightening dimension into which politics is degenerating in Nigeria, particularly in places like Patani, on the one hand, and Delta State as a whole.

THE news meeting of The New York Times Foreign Desk in this oval office presided over by Susan Chira, the most senior editor on this wet Wednesday, was brisk, businesslike and incisive. Appointed foreign editor of one of America’s most prestigious newspapers on January 2004, Chira who sat at the head of the conference table left no one in doubt that she was in charge.

Until last May 29, Chief Godson Ikedi Ohakim was Governor of Imo State, popularly as the Eastern Heartland. The masters degree holder in management from University of Lagos has played the political field for over two decades, during which he has experienced mixed fortunes.