ABIA State Governor, Theodore Orji, explained recently, that his desire for a united Nigeria informed his decision to recall the non-indigenes disengaged from the state’s civil service. He made the explanation at the Enugu Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, press week held at Top Rank Hotel, Enugu, emphasizing the unity of the Igbos of the South East whose indigenes were mostly affected by the disengagement.

The late literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe was at his proverbial best when he stated in one of his novels that the house the enemy wanted to pull down has caught fire on its own. Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, who had massed a lot of enemies following her landmark reforms in the sector, is that proverbial house the enemy had long wanted to pull down.

ONCE again, Governor Sullivan Chime is selling newspapers and burning up web pegs and social networks. Once again, it is about health issues – only that this time it is not about the governor but about his wife, Clara. Another media fest is thus in full bloom and the ‘meal’ is again, Chime.

When the story of the Super Eagles and Golden Eaglets’ success at the continental and global stage is being written, a chapter will definitely be devoted to the contributions of the Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, NSC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi.

IT was a sunny afternoon at Obalende bus stop on the Lagos Island. A young man in saggy pants was among the hundreds of others waiting under the scorching sun. The top of his jeans which was significantly below his waist revealed much of his boxer shorts, bunching around the ankles.