THE kind of soldier he was, it would have been no news if he had literally breathed his last on the frontlines. His resume included state persecution—endless harassment by the Establishment, and time ...

I remember that phone call from Gabriel Ando Ogar, better known as G.A. Ogar, then seminal Sec­retary to the Cross River (now Cross River and Akwa Ibom) State Government and Head of Service. In those ...