Restructuring, states creation and the accompanying delusions
LAST weekend, the deputy president of Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, held an interactive session with lawyers of South-eastern origin in Lagos. The topic
Poverty statistics and crisis in Nigeria
IF there ever was a need to remind about the connection between grinding poverty, social injustice and hopelessness and the Boko Haram
Southwest: An anthem, a flag and the justification
FOR three days, last week, Vintage Press, the publishers of Bola Tinubu’s THE NATION newspapers, hosted a Legislative Summit on Regional Integration,
The Sovereign National Conference (SNC) Tower of Babel
Last week, we caught a whiff of the deep-seated delusion embedded in the unceasing call by a section of the elite, mainly
Who really is our President? Azazi or Jonathan?
OVER the weekend, Nigerian newspapers reproduced the interview given to the Financial Times (FT) of London, by Andrew Owoye Azazi, President Goodluck Jonathan’s
Wole Soyinka should name Boko Haram sponsors
LAST week, the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, revealed to a South African newspaper, an “original discovery” he made on Nigerian affairs, stating, that
Femi Fani-Kayode’s voice from the fringe
THESE are the best of times. These are the worst of times! Pardon me, good old, Charles Dickens. When crisis engulfs a
Back to the sovereign national conference trenches
Last year, I was invited by Lanre Idowu, of Diamond Publications, to review a book he edited, on the late Chief Anthony
Boko Haram and President Jonathan’s olive branch of dialogue
LAST week, President Goodluck Jonathan told Reuters, in an interview, that the Nigerian government would dialogue with the Islamist organization, Boko Haram,
Nigeria’s politics of maritime security
I SPOKE with Lai Mohammed, spokesperson of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), on Monday. My call was sequel to the alarm