DEATH is especially tragic because of its finality. It is also never expected and that is why everyone receives the news of the death of any acquaintance as something of a deep shock.

I would say that I have been fortunate to experience the Nigerian environment and society. The mere fact of daring into a society hitherto unknown to me has also made me stronger and braver for a lifetime.

WHEN Chinedu Nebo, then a ministerial nominee spoke of casting out witches and demons during Senate screening, he must have thought that he was deploying an innocuous metaphor which any reasonable person would ordinarily decipher.

Apparently anxious to divert attention from the many internal crises ripping the party apart and daily rendering it more vulnerable in the forthcoming 2015 elections, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a mischievous and utterly misleading attack on the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

THE above excerpt taken from Achebe’s debut novel, Things Fall Apart, aptly describes the fate that befell the people of Northern Nigeria as soon as the then British colonial overlords abdicated in favour of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sarduana of Sokoto and the then Premier of Northern region.