Perhaps 50 years ago, it would have been awkward and superfluous to ask this question. In the late 60s through the 70s and earlier part of the 80s, marriage was seen as what a man and a woman go into for the rest of their lives; it was very odd to hear of separation and divorce.

AT a time when hardship was taking a toll on the people of Warri-North LGA, perhaps as a result of the general economic depression, communal conflict and the pollution of the environment resulting from unchecked activities of oil exploration companies and crude oil theft, a proper and committed representation is what the people need.

THE recent signing of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement, BASA, between our country, Nigeria and the Republic of Isreal, on October 28, 2013 is indeed a historic milestone in the country’s aviation history.

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.