Again, some people may question how successful these imported ideas have been. If they didn’t work out well, it would have been the Nigerian factor that was at play, not that those ideas were bad. In most national issues, the average Nigerian has a way of putting himself first, thinking of how he can benefit from it personally than to how much good it would do the country and its citizens.

I met him when he was still a boy. I was 30 years old then while he was 31 and, immediately thereafter, we got married.

THE plot of land on which the great mansion stood occupied one side of a relatively small street. An imposing steel and concrete gate stood at the front of the extensive compound, but with it was a sorrowful absence of a fence. —chapter 1, page 1 of Placards, 1987.

This may sound archaic in this jet age, but it’s the only way that we can avoid epidemics like Typhoid Fever, Lassa Fever, Cholera, etc. Each local government area should have a team of sanitary inspectors who would go round their communities and inspect open spaces around.