The suggestion made by Dr Mailafia about the restructuring of the country into five regions - Sharia North, Yoruba West, Igbo East, Niger Delta and Middle Belt - is good and brilliant. But can it work? Yes, it can work. …
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Sovereign and Sovereignty Question in Nigeria
Basically, sovereignty is about having the natural capacity and the inalienable right to self-determination and self-rule. It is about understanding who has the power to dictate how one’s life is to be run. And who has the power to define …
Re: SHEHU SHAGARI: A Good Man, a Bad Leader by Jiti Ogunye
Yet four years later, the same Shehu Shagari whose mismanagement of the Ministry of Finance contributed in no small measure to the toppling of a government was adjudged qualify enough by the then secretive 'Kaduna Mafia' and he was railroaded above …
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Nigeria on Fire : Winners and Losers II – The Winners
The historical factors that informed the imbalances and inequalities in the international relations among nations can be rested on the yet to be forgotten undignified status of Africans as a people of the conquered, pillaged, enslaved and raped race. The …
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Nigeria on Fire : The New Beginning II – National Integration And Sovereignty
The topic and the essay in this section was dictated by a classified advertisement published in The Guardian on Sunday on 11 October 1998 by the Integration Group of Nigeria. This group, as well as other groups quietly working round …
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Nigeria on Fire : The New Beginning VI (a)
The Moment of Truth The world is at the tail end of a miserable and wretched so-called Golden Age but named correctly by all fair-minded persons on earth as the Age of Greed. Fortunately we are again standing at the …
Nigeria on Fire : Nigeria’s Darkest Moment, 1985-98 (IV) – The Cult of Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha, the two military demagogues, were not patriots in any debased sense, neither were they interested in protecting the North or anybody for that matter from any ‘foreign’ domination. They were merely two ordinary but psychologically …
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