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QUASHING THE COUP OR CARRYING OUT A COUP? In recent years, as more Nigerians begin to pay close attention to the country’s chequered past, the nature of Ironsi’s ascension to…

Ironsi’s Role In The January 15 1966 Coup The evidence that shows that General Ironsi and the plotters of the supposedly Igbo coup of January 15 1966 were diametrically opposed…

There are times in the life of a people when the gloves come off and frank talk must take the space in national discourse. If my memory serves me well,…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to Nigeria’s Defence Ministry to outline a plan for the development of an arms industry for the country is thought-provoking. Many people have taken sides on…

When Murtala Muhammed became Nigeria’s third military Head of State on 29 July 1975, he won a place in the people’s hearts with an intensive crackdown against corruption. The then…

With the formal declaration by Lieutenant-Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, on Tuesday, May 30 1967, Biafra entered the world. There are scholars who claim…

The majority of Nigerians have spoken. Buhari is the new president-elect. He is not my flavor of the month. Never was, as anyone who has followed my position on the…

This article is, to a great extent, inspired by the interview with the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Reverend Father Matthew Hassan Kukah, published in the January 23 edition of ‘Daily…

Anambra State, indeed the entire Eastern Nigeria and certainly the entire country, was fortunate to have a governor of Peter Gregory Obi’s calibre. I lived in Anambra State from 2001…