“What a tragic and unfortunate foundation. The British colonialists were masters of divide and rule. The forced amalglmation of the southern and northern protectorates of Nigeria in 1914 was a Greek gift which was designed to fail and inplode after a period of time. Nigerians have done well to even hold it together for this

“I have never regarded myself as having a monopoly of wisdom. The trouble is that when most people in public life and in the position of leadership and rulership are spending whole days and nights carousing in clubs or in the company of men of shady character and women of easy virtue, I, like a

“Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” ______________ George Bernard Shaw.

“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy to which our accurst “love of peace” can lower us are unfathomable”

“Yes we can.” ______________ Barack Obama, November 2008.

“How ironic…when the oppressor,parasitic brute and mindless looter gets a dose of the bitter pills he administers to others…he cries…forgetting the people of Odi,Odiama,Gbaramatu….the children he made fatherless…the women he made husbandless….the villages he emptied….the livelihood he destroyed…the beautiful deltaic environment he is destroying….the children on the streets of Maiduguri he cruelly left to go