BARELY 24 hours after a suicide bomber rammed his car into United Nations, UN, building in Abuja, killing at least 25 people and injuring over 40, President Goodluck Jonathan, Saturday, paid an on-the-spot assessment visit to the scene of the blast.
From Sir, later Lord Luggard’sroguish amalgamation of the lands and peoples today known as Nigeria and Nigerians, to the date this humble rejoinder hits the airwaves (some 97 years), Nigerians have clamoured to exercise their fundamental right to give themselves a Constitution. The extent of the clamour is evidenced by Suits in the Federal High Court Abuja and Lagos: Suit Nos. FHC/ABJ/CS/367/07 and No. FHC/L/CS/558/09, in which Chief Anthony Enahoro, Wole Soyinka, Odumegwu Ojukwu, C.C. Onoh, Chief Bankole Oki, SAN, Ralph Uwazuruike, Asari Dokubo, Yerima Shettima, Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, Fred Agbeyegbe, asked for relief that the 1999 Constitution be jettisoned, on the ground that “The 1999 Constitution is a forgery”. Since then, there have been contestations as to whether or not the National Assembly can amend the 1999 Constitution or make a new one.
Alhaji Jibrin Isa, an investment banker of repute is gunning for the governorship seat in Kogi state. With Kogi State celebrating 20 years of its creation today, he speaks on the journey so far and what he expects the state to look like in the next 20 years.
