Nigeria, July 30 -- WE knew each other before we met-through the magical medium of penmanship. We contributed to the same journal. We also studied at the same period in the great state of New York; he at Columbia University, and I at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was a graduate student, and I was a graduate student and faculty member. Scholarship, Church, and Politics eventually brought us together. In Abuja. We are both Knights of the Methodist Church, members of the People's Democratic Party, and providentially served as Ministers of Education. He was a worthy successor of mine in that office. We also relate ideologically and intellectually and have interrogated the endemic topic "Of the Problem with Nigeria", through ...