Birthday essay for Professor Akachi Ezeigbo

Let me urgently make this open confession: the current condition of this land - this land, your land, my land, our land - has consigned me to nothing short of a pretty long time to dilemmas upon dilemmas - seriously speaking indeed. It would be unjust of me not to make this open confession to you my chief reader today (and readers) in order to escape an almost inevitable calamity.