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Truth, The Home Truth,

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TIDDO YO DADDO NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF GMMC YOLA. ATTENTION: 11 TRUTH, THE HOME TRUTH The year 2020 has proved to be unique in many ways aside the all pervading corona virus, Covid-19 pandemic, which spear head the global fear and changes in human life styles, economic and environment. In addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, Nigeria was hit by the Endsars epidemic which rattled the country and metamorphosed into a monster prepared to consume the nation. For those of us who were in our youth, aged 20 years, when Ojukwu declared independent state of Biafra and Gowon countered by declaring a rebellion against the Nigerian State, on the 7th of July 1967, first by Police action which snowballed into full, bloody civil war that led to the death of over one million Nigerians on both sides of the divide, ending in 1970 with a declaration by Gowon, of a “No victor and no vanquis". It was a glimpse, a memory, a reminder of the horrors of the fratricidal civil strife that threate