THE birth of the man, known much later as Ikemba in Zungeru (present day Niger State) was a remarkable event. Even more remarkable was the arrival of Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu, the then richest man in Nigeria in his Rolls Royce, to take him away to Lagos.

RECENTLY, a group of people who identified themselves as ex-students union leaders bought spaces in the newspapers to admonish Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, Edo State governor, to take the path of honour.

SINCE the constitution of the Federal Executive Council by President Goodluck Jonathan after his 2011 victory at the general election, many government ministries and agencies have attested to the fact that governance have recorded a great departure from the past.

One should be rightly puzzled that I would venture to write about the country’s satellite program at this time of national crisis with Nigeria having to deal with Boko Haram, infiltration of the administration by fundamentalist groups, unprecedented lack of personal security, untold hardships caused by the abrupt withdrawal of fuel subsidy in the background of endemic corruption and the continuing lack of essential development of the country.

YES and no. For the benefit of those who are not conversant with the infantile indulgence of building sandcastles at seaside picnics or at the village playground, their construction tickles the aesthetic imagination of little kids.