Even though he doesn't know what preaching the gospel mean, he relies on Machiavellian survival-ism he had learned in a correctional institution while on trial.  He banks on the fact that the people, including the so-called intellectual are stupidly religious and annoyingly forgetful. With Koran and the bible on both hands, a once condemned man set foot on a city to speak, plead and argue passionately in favour of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Thursday January 15, 2009 marks the 39th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian civil war. *On that day in Dodan Barracks, a brutal 920-day civil war ended as former colleagues and combatants who had engaged each other in bitter warfare for over two and a half years embraced each other with unprecedented speech and warmth.

Even though Nigeria ranks 41st on the GDP scale, our nation ranks closer to the bottom of the pile in per capita GDP amongst the world's nations. This disparity is partly due to the huge population crowded within the geographical boundaries of Nigeria. Most of the other oil producing nations (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Ir an and Kuwait) have much smaller populations relative to Nigeria making their per capita GDP much higher than ours