TEN years after it was conceived as a platform for Nigerians to put aside their striking ethno-religious diversities and worship God, The Experience gospel concert, has transformed into a vehicle for the continuous repositioning of Nigeria on the path of greatness.

First, it was Senator Donald Dick Etiebet, Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in the Second Republic, 1979-1983, Governor of old Cross River State (now Cross River and Akwa Ibom States in July, 2015.

It was neither a vacation trip nor a tour for seasonal ceremony. It was a journey to attend a crisis communication seminar for humanitarian workers and journalists covering disasters which was held in Maiduguri in the first week of December 2015. My family members could not dissuade me from the trip that hopefully would provide me another opportunity to assess one of the Boko Haram worst-hit cities in Nigeria.

Taxation is a means of generating revenue by government for the purpose of providing social services to the people. Taxation all over the world is a function of reciprocity.

THE coinage, godfatherism, is perhaps one of the most popular and self explanatory adjuncts in the world today. It has a dual meaning, one being religious and seemingly harmless and the other political and sometimes dangerous. In the sphere of religion, a godfather is supposed to be a guardian that undertakes to teach a child (grandson) Christian values. In politics, however, godfatherism connotes favouratism, undue advantage, tyranny, suppression and even treachery.