A Warri-based lawyer, Dr. Akpor Mudiaga-Odje, yesterday, said President Goodluck Jonathan was the utmost beneficiary of the Niger Delta agitation.

CALL it ambuscade! The air of apprehension in the build up to the June 12, 1993 presidential elections, was so thick a knife could cut through it. With the path to the elections strewn with land mines of different nature – judicial and political – many Nigerians had thought the elections might not hold after all.

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It rose to N477.70 million in 1962, N498.19 million in 1963, N554.43 million in 1964 and N654.34 million in 1965. In 1966 the total revenue rose to N612.88 million and in 1970 total revenue stood at N634 made up of N166.60 million earnings from oil. With the export of crude oil on commercial basis from 1970, Nigeria revenue profile changed for the better as total revenue jumped to N3,724 million with non oil contributing just N813.40 million.

Awolowo went round looking for the man, held him by the arm and dragged him before the Sardauna and told him to kneel down and greet him

In addition, general health centres were estimated to total slightly less than 600, general clinics 2,740, maternity homes 930, and maternal health centres 1,240. All these hospitals have been full to bursting ever since, but over the years, health services have not advanced.

At that time, every service you have, the Customs, the SSS, the Immigration, the NDLEA, even the Federal Road Safety Corps; name it; every arm of the security we have today were all parts of the Nigeria Police Force. We had the Police Custom Service, the Police Immigration Service, the Police Fire Service and of course, the Hausa Constabulary eventually became the Royal West African Frontier Force (WAFF) which became the Nigerian Army.

How are we going to prove that we can rule ourselves or are we going to be slaves to the British forever?

The appointment of IGPs is not a ballot box affair. Making an Assistant Inspector General of Police the IGP does not amount  to politicisation and polarisation

By Olusegun Adeniyi
Nigeria today marks its 50th anniversary as an independent country. But the Jubilee celebration in Abuja has been shadowed by  growing apprehensions, in several quarters, of an impending national crisis.

This fear, even if unduly hysterical, is fuelled by the incendiary nature of the on-going campaign for the 2011 general elections.

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