The National Party of Nigeria invented the whole idea of zoning in Nigeria. It is an invention which many are not ready to give it credit. It all started this way. As it prepared for its primaries in 1978, the party announced that only politicians from the defunct Northern...
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Early in 1984, the lot fell on me to cover the Special Military Tribunal in Kaduna that was trying political office holders who were kicked out office by the military and brought before the Tribunal to complete their circle of wrenching ordeals. The trials were held in secret. Then...
Take a pause and think about this: Your life lies in your mind and in the beliefs you hold on to. Your life and how it is taking shape is a function of your beliefs. Your mind is very powerful in shaping INTO BEING the things you want or...
On the 25th December 2011, something happened which completely shook my faith in the continued existence of this country. Worshippers at a Christmas service in Madalla Catholic Church on the outskirts of Abuja were bombed by a fringe Muslim group – Boko Haram. There was a carnage. The response...
If Nigeria were a country in a hurry to build strong, united country and develop itself, Umaru Altine would have been recognized in his time as an instant hero. Over seventy years ago, he was daring enough to take the novel, heroic step which no other Nigerian has taken...
Experts have expressed divergent views over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) advice to the Federal Government to ensure total removal of electricity and petrol subsidies. They expressed the views in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday. A financial analyst, Mr Johnson Chukwu, said...
Introduction On 2nd November 2021, President Muhammadu Buhari took to the podium at the UN Climate Change Conference Glasgow 2021 tagged COP26 (26th meeting of the Conference of Parties). In what I consider to be President Buhari’s best speech ever, he said: “Without extra and stable power, we cannot...
With presidential election results from all but one of Nigeria’s 36 states counted, and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, clearly in unassailable lead, President Jonathan had telephoned Mr. Buhari to concede defeat. At the time the call was made, the Independent National Electoral Commission was...
I watched the film clip released soon after the death of F.W. de Klerk, who as president of South Africa dismantled the apartheid system that he and his ancestors had helped put in place. He died at his home near Cape Town last Thursday. He cast a pathetic sight...
By EMMANUEL YAWE – There is an ongoing narrative one gets trending on Nigeria in the media about the inevitability of the country’s break up. This is obvious as one reads through the print and social media social as well as listens to the electronic media. Often, the break...
Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Friday in Lagos urged Nigerians to interact with the 1999 Constitution to actualise their hope for a better life. Fashola said at a Yoruba Tennis Club’s Landmark public lecture that it was better to work with the Constitution than to...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – While developed countries’ economics determines their politics. The case of Nigeria seems different as the country’s politics always determine her economic policies. This is according to the assertion made by the former Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, during an interview with our correspondent in Calabar,...
Google has announced that Nigerians have surprisingly shown a growing interest in the holiday of Halloween, Father Christmas costumes and others in it search record. Google, in its October report, said that search queries in the week leading up to October 31, shows that search terms terms like, ‘When...
In 1984 – 85, I had the misfortune of reporting events at the Special Military Tribunal sitting in Kaduna. The Second Republic had just come to grief and one state governor after another were put on trial for crimes against the Nigerian state. The governors had like all political...