The Armed Forces of Nigeria on Friday, announced the deployment of 197 personnel for the peace keeping mission in the Gambia. This is despite the insecurity scourge raging across Nigeria with heightening cases of banditry, terrorism and kidnapping. The Chief of Operations Nigerian Army, Major General Boniface Sinjen disclosed the deployment in Jaji, Kaduna State, at the graduation of troops …

There are two professional groups in Nigeria that need, so to say, re-orientation in their attitude to other Nigerians; the first are lawyers and the other are soldiers. Lawyers call themselves “learned gentlemen”; the inference, to many, is that anyone who is not a lawyer is neither learned nor a gentleman. Then I began to search for the meaning and …