MORE than 51 years after its nominal independence, Nigeria is still where it has always been. Do you want to ruin your appetite? Then, why not attempt carrying Nigeria’s problems on your head? The wiser ones have long learned to leave Nigeria’s load at the shoulder level, so that if it got too heavy, they could just throw it away.
OF all the fine definitions of terrorism, the one offered by the ninth edition of Black’s Law Dictionary at page 1611 is the most appealing: The use or threat of violence to intimidate or cause panic, especially as a means of affecting political conduct. This definition accepts the fact that terrorism takes place at every level, every time, and every where.
WHEN Chief Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria is wobbling, he probably means that this is not the type of Nigeria he would have liked to bequeath to a godson.
NO matter how much we paint the situation, when a government becomes so weak and so incompetent that it can no longer protect its citizens; and when a nation becomes so corrupt and overtaken by criminality, then, the major indicators or symptoms of a failed state are registered.
By Josef Omorotionmwan
NOBODY will blame us for sometimes behaving like the military. After all, we were under the military for too long. It was around 4.00 p.m. on that fateful day in 1985. We were all glued to our radio sets, awaiting the decision in the case of General Maman Vatsa, et al.
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ON September 15, 1963, during the American civil rights movement, the American terrorist group Ku Klux Klan, which uses twisted Christian language to support its racist ideology, set off a bomb in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, where civil rights activists often congregated. The bomb killed four little girls coming out of their Sunday school class and wounded 22 other people.
SOME few weeks ago, we watched on television when the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, was on site to see the progress of work on a contract, which he apparently wanted expeditiously executed. Here was the contractor telling the Governor: “We intend to…”.
