Each time we brainstormed about Nigeria, I had more convictions that she could make a very great leader. she displayed a high degree of selflessness and kindness. She had a very good sense of empathy. Today, her words remain memories that reminds me how we use to feel with regards to the concept of BIAFRA. At that time, the psychological terror that paraded the atmosphere was severe and in the minds of students who had relatives and friends in the Northern part of Nigeria, there was a great fear. We had learned about the civil war that lasted between 1967 and 1970. This period so many Biafrans never survived to see a country that they had stood and fought for. The war was unpredictable and soon there were casualties among the innocent. Those without guns nor blades died in their caves, huts and the forest; not from gunshots nor blades but from a conscious and calculated attempt by Nigeria to wipe out an entire population. To win the war, president Yakubu Gowon had stopped the entrance of food materials into the Eastern Region as a way to force the BIAFRAN forces to surrender. This I had argured seventeen years ago with Celina, that it was the most cruel act that any government in the world could out pour on its territory. It was an unconscious revelation by the head of state that he had no value for any human life in the region, a feeling which was fondly shared with the Nigerian state. All that was important was to regain control of the region. I was born sixteen years after the BIAFRAN civil war but the history of the tears and blood resound in my mind each time I ponder on the present realities in the Nigerian political system. The quota system has kept us very conscious of where we come from. The worst part, "Corruption had tarried and became the tradition". It rekindled the spirit of the old song of freedom sang by Late Gen. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the first...