IN an interview granted to one John Alechenu and published at pages 48 and 49 of the Punch Newspaper of February 1, 2014, Professor Ango Abdullahi, a so- called Northern Elder and “power- must return to the North” die-hard, claimed that the Nigerian oil industry was developed with money from the North.

EITHER by happenstance, benevolence of nature or by purely divine design, Ndokwa nation is unique and of strategic importance to Delta State.

A prophet has honour except in his own land. This biblical axiom had dominated discourses for centuries breeding its own circle of ingratitude and irrational verbal outburst against even the unblemished in their own lands. Whenever emergent backlash is timely spotted like a submarine systemtically out of water, it is this biblical aphorism that is always summoned to soothe the minds of the unblemished frothing like dancing palm wine in the morning. I think it is time we intellectually subjected this saying ‘a prophet has honour except in his own land’ to gruelling interrogation since it is now lazily appropriated by phrase-mongers to darken the known phenomenal radiance of achievers all over the world. After all a snake seasonally casts off its skin to cope with the exigencies of its environment.

THE Vanguard newspaper editorial of Tuesday, 11 February 2014, page 18 Of Choristers, Hijab, Masquerades was an apparent attempt to put in perspective the disturbances that played up at the Baptist High School, Iwo in the State of Osun.

NIGERIA is a large country in West Africa with a growing population of 160 million people. She occupies an area of 923,766 square kilometres in the tropics. She is extremely rich in multicultural diversities, traditions and has many languages.