In 1997, a Nigerian professor of political history published an essay titled, ‘Democracy in Africa: What Prospect?‘ in The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria. The title of the essay attracted my attention and sadly disappointment at the end. The erudite scholar …
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Nigeria on Fire : To Your Tents O! Nigerians VI – The Un-Civil Societies of Nigeria
Introduction. We have looked at some key institutions and personalities in Nigeria that should normally be relevant to the project of moving Nigeria forward. So far we are not convinced any of them is capable to take Nigeria State out …
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Overcoming Hopelessness and Powerlessness
OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA VI Dear Fellow Nigerian in Diaspora, When we wrote the first letter titled, A Wake Up Call, we had no idea that it would stretch this far. We would like to apologise sincerely for …
The Social Revolution of Nigeria
OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA V Hello Folks, It is a pleasure to be back again after a short break. It would have been nice to address each of you by name. We have come along long enough to …
Reflection on Sovereign Community Conference
We believe a properly constituted community must have the wherewithal to provide for the needs of its members without recourse to begging. When a community is not able to provide adequate sustenance for its children, youth, women and the elderly; …
Sovereign Family Conferences
Unfortunately, the power-loving Nigerians love to focus every attention and effort on the central level of government as the only place that requires healing. They are wrong. The centre cannot hold when the constituent parts are cancerous. Nigeria is very …
Understanding Sovereign and Sovereignty
Unfortunately, religious knowledge is not very helpful in this direction. Some religious concepts are so loaded that they end up standing in the way of our understanding of the concept of freedom and sovereignty. The concept of ‘God-fearing person’, of …
SAM ABBD ISRAEL 