What did Nigeria do to find itself mentioned in the same sentence as “terrorism”, and be blacklisted in the same illustrious company as Somalia, Afghanistan and Libya?
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Nigerians seem to have a two-tier belief system. On the one hand they believe in God/Allah, and attend church/mosque. Yet they still believe in the power of non-Biblical or Koranic …
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Other countries keep libraries full of books and archives about their first leaders. All Americans know chapter and verse about George Washington. Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah is an icon. What of …
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What is the biggest danger facing Nigeria? Corruption? Kidnapping? Armed insurgency? Religious extremism? Nigeria’s ticking time bomb might be in its mothers’ wombs…
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In conspiracy rife Nigeria, all manner of rumours and apocryphal stories have alleged that Nzeogwu was murdered in a Machiavellian plot engineered by Ojukwu to eliminate him or perhaps that …
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The Niger Delta militants are not one organisation operating under a common leadership with unified ideology. There is no central chain of command or a clearly defined political ideal. Rather, …
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To understand the grossness of the injustice currently being perpetrated against former EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu, one has to appreciate the depth of his achievements…
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It is ridiculous for people to also call for OBJ’s arrest and trial. How many of our past Heads of state have ever been arrested and tried? Did Babangida, when …
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Over the past few weeks I have been revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984. This is the concluding part of the series…
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Over the past few weeks I have been revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984. This is the concluding part of the series…
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Dikko was one of the most powerful and notorious figures in the government of President Shagari between 1979 and 1983. This is the second of a three part series which …
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Over the next few weeks, I will be revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984…
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Nigeria is internationally famous for three things: oil, its Super Eagles football team, and its spectacular government corruption. However, contrary to popular belief it is quite simply a myth that …
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Nigerians may have become so accustomed to bad governance that they have blinded themselves to the positives of the last government…
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Nigerians may have become so accustomed to bad governance that they have blinded themselves to the positives of the last government…
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By failing to implement the Aburi decisions, Nigeria missed a golden opportunity to find a constitutional arrangement acceptable to all of its constituent parts…