Since the South East governors of Nigeria hurriedly announced the formation of Ebubeagu Security Network, a cross section of Easterners have described it as a myth...
by Mariam Ileyemi On the 19th of February, Kwara State Government was forced to order the temporary closure of ten schools in the state following the...
By abiodun KOMOLAFE ‘Abiodun, stop crying; the storm is over!’ Those were the exact words of Peter Oluyinka Odumakin to me at Saint James’ Anglican Church, Aramoko-Ekiti in Ekiti State, on November 5, 2009. It was on the...
It was a bit alarming reading the kind of rhetoric that came from Ohanaeze Youth over the weekend about Nigeria ceasing to exist, especially when you...
By Adebayo Raphael If this were the era of colonial adventures, perhaps now would be what colonialists would describe as a ‘good time’ to colonize –...
In the past few weeks, I have been on a round the country tour. A lot of it by road. I have spoken with people in...
It takes just a moment of indignation to destroy; to cast down and cast out. It is easier to destroy than to build. And what is...
I will spare you the details. Chances are that you already know them. But if the subject is about solving Nigeria’s perennial herder-farmer crises, then it...
by Fredrick Nwabufo Abuja is under siege. Terror lives and breathes here. Citizens are kidnapped every day from their homes but sadly, some of these tragedies...
Federalism is the principle, some would say a conceptual or institutional framework, which defines “the division of authority among national and subnational governments” in a given...
Leadership must be responsive to diversity. It is the rudimentary ingredient to fostering unity among variegated people. Where leadership becomes insouciant to diversity, every other thing...
by Fredrick Nwabufo Crime has no ethnic face. When criminality is defined according to ethnic origin or religion, social cohesion is threatened. There are people of criminal...
