"Those fighting the government in the media are doing so because we have been able to frustrate their efforts in strangulating the economy through their devilish black market and questionable profiteering at the expense of the Nigerian people...What is hurting them is that we have put policies in place where they can no longer cheat the government and cause untold hardship to millions of Nigerians", Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, Minister of Petroleum Resources, in PUNCH, Friday, November 9, 2012, p 13.
Back in 1968, as freshman in an American private university, I was encouraged by my academic adviser to take an elective course titled Psychology 1a. It was one of the greatest favours anyone ever did me. On my own, I later enrolled for Psychology 1b in the second semester.
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