Nigeria In An Emergency —Soyinka

Professor Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, takes a cold, hard  look at Nigeria’s 50-year history as an independent country. He tells ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE  and BAMIDELE ...

Still Wobbly, After 50 Years

After 50 years of nationhood, Nigeria, the self-styled ‘giant of Africa’, resembles a  child with special needs [caption id="attachment_3194" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="• The founding fathers of Nigeria from left: Chief Obafemi ...

Nigeria Not Created To Be A United Country —Odia Ofiemun

We were really not created to become a united country. That was not the plan of Britain  when they conquered kingdom after kingdom and knocked them together with the English  ...

The Wasting Generation —Wale Adebanwi

The old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but  stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh...And the same thing is happening to my  generation. - ...

There Is Hope For Nigeria

The possibilities were always for me infinite, even as a kid growing up, knowing what my  mothers, my uncles did. The option you have is your education; your education is ...

Why They Killed Soboma

The arrest and parading of four former militants who confess to killing Soboma George  douse suspicion that the Rivers State government or federal security agents orchestrated  the assassination of the ...

INEC’s Race Against Time

Independent National Electoral Commission demands for more time to prepare for the 2011  elections [caption id="attachment_3170" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="• INEC Boss Attahiru Jega."][/caption] Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National ...

Gov. Akpabio On An Endorsement Roll

UYO: As the general elections approach, it is not unexpected that first-term incumbent  elective public officers become jittery and resort to desperate tactics that would  promote their chances of being ...

Sliding Toward Anarchy

IBADAN: History has a curious way of repeating itself. In the 1960s, the political shenanigans  and violence that culminated in the termination of the First Republic started in Ibadan,  then ...

Unongo’s Sermon On South-South Rights

GBOKO: In recent times, Chief Paul Wanteregh Unongo, Minister of Power and Steel in the Second  Republic, has been somewhat restrained in his comments on national issues. However, he  made ...
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