Some Nigerians erroneously think that their country is rich and to the extent of their warped imaginations, the country is stupendously wealthy.

An alliance was yesterday struck between Southwest and Southeast geo-political zones of the country with a declaration to remove all old animosities that had hindered the progress of the two zones and work together as one indivisible entity.

The careers of both General Adeyinka Adebayo and Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia, both of whom passed on last week may have been due more to happenstance to the normal progressions of history.

In my father’s household, the Nigerian Civil War was a daily presence. This was because my eldest brother, Adeyinka, was at the war front. He had joined the army in 1960 after he left Okemesi Grammar School, Okemesi-Ekiti.

It is good for the republic that many other eminent Nigerians have been joining the chorus for the restructuring since former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar made the call some few weeks ago.