According to (Enrinco Fermi, 1901-1954) an Italian theoretical physicist, “It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge”

Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nasir Ahmad El Rufai’s relentless criticism of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to have become a regular feature of some Nigerian media in recent times.

For weeks, you painted the town red with venomous aggression and hostility against the Bible, not against St. Paul. You bastardised, terrorised and pounded the sensitivity of the Christendom all in attempt to prove to us that you do not believe in the Bible as the inspired Word of God, rather as the writings of Paul, Peter, or any other, upon which you unleash your unguarded carnal anger.

In recent past, creative art and entertainment were seen as unserious business ventures… Parents, friends and associates of entertainers perceived them as never-do-well in the society.

Permit me to begin this contribution with two incontrovertible assertions. Firstly had we successfully answered what has come to be collectively known as the ‘’Nationality Question’’ in the ’50s and ’60s there would have been no civil war in 1967. Secondly had we not chosen to forget our differences but instead had we tried to understand them, the last 53 years of our existence as an independent nation would have witnessed far more unity, stability and progress than it has done.