Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
The Samuel we read in the Holy Bible was a transformational figure in the Old Testament. Through him finally came kings to shepherd the nation of Israel after Joshua. The miracle child of Hannah was ordained to administer the divine oath on God’s anointed. Conversely, the Samuel we encountered in Nigeria’s media space in the past two decades was no less imbued with fierce crusader - if not ecumenical - spirit.
It is exactly 20 days since the world lost one of the greatest football talents in Diego Armando Maradona to the inevitable clutches of death. Eulogies of immeasurable quantities and qualities poured in drove. Every sector of human endeavor testified that a comet flashed off the milky way. Historical tributes painted his life and times in pages of international tabloids.
In 1999, I returned to Nigeria from London where I had lived for a decade, armed with my biography of Major-General Aguiyi-Ironsi. I needed to have the book introduced to the reading publicl.
Sometime in the early 1990s, I received a call from the Office of the Nigerian Permanent Mission to the United Nations informing me that the Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, wanted me to come and see him at his New York Office. The office had gotten my telephone number from the publisher of a Nigerian-owned magazine where I made occasional contributions.
To have Nigeria restructured, and to have an Igbo President in 2023, are two things very dear to the Igbo at this point in time. The Igbo want Nigeria to be restructured, and they also want a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023.
“My value for human life and my respect for all people, irrespective of social-economic status, is what endeared me to these vendors and these are the reasons why I stop my convoy quite often to connect with them." - Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.
Nigeria's Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, could easily pass for an artist. Whether of the con or visible variant, Lai is adroit at his act. In his mind's eye, he paints diverse portraits, all fittingly serving the specific publics he intends to 'entertain'.
The Fulani have many intriguing proverbs. 'If a man says he will swallow an axe, hold the handle for him.' That is one of the proverbs. If you want to understand the full import, then listen very well to Alhaji Buba Galadima who professes to be Buhari's enemy. He was in the news a few days ago responding to the call for an Igbo president for Nigeria in 2023.
Last week, two important events took place in Nsukka, Enugu North Senatorial District. First was the dedication of ecclesiastical edifice of no mean magnificence -- the Cathedral of the Catholic Diocese which also marked the 30th anniversary of the creation of the diocese.
Barely one year after Mr Chimaobi Nwaogu of Amaise Umuokereke-Ngwa, Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State was gruesomely and extra-judicially murdered by Corporal Johnson Ajayi, his kinsman, Mr. Onyedikachi Nwogu of Umuokoro, Umuokpo has been senselessly and gruesomely killed by Insp. Robinson Otobong of Akwa Ibom Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
By Bola Bolawole
Below are excerpts by the Egbe Omo Oduduwa to Gov. Kayode Fayemi’s Arewa lecture; enjoy it!
By Dons Eze, PhD
The defection of Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Congress (APC), may have thrown up new challenges for the APC in Ebonyi State.
