THAT Nigeria is a country of dual ideologies comes true again as two versions of June 12 will be celebrated across the country tomorrow, 26 years after the annulment of hope in the country.

A GOOD friend of mine who is an encyclopedia on Nigerian politics told me a pathetic story a few days back. He had visited governor-friend years back. As they went in, he saw the Speaker of the State House of Assembly and the Clerk waiting for his Imperial Excellency. He was with the governor for about four hours and when he saw him off at midnight they were still waiting with the Speaker dozing off.

I AM trying to get a copy of Prof. Pat Utomi’s latest book as I am fascinated by the chapter on how criminals hijacked the Nigerian political space. We cannot forget in a hurry how Senator Nuhu Aliyu got up one day on the floor of our Senate and screamed that “there are criminals in this chambers”.  The ex-cop was said to have seen a man he once arrested on a robbery charge sitting there as a senator.

A FEW days after the 2018 Global Terrorism Index categorised Nigeria as the third most terrorised country in the world after Iraq and Afghanistan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo gave an unusual but brutally frank assessment of the Boko Haram insurgency in the country with a damning verdict on the mission of the terror group.

IF there were citizens still living in denial that Nigeria has sunk below our expectation, Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, removed all doubts last week when he declared that violent herders association, Miyetti Allah, is Northern Nigeria’s version of respected Southern groups, Afenifere and Ohanaeze. The President’s aide, who was speaking on Channels TV, said: “It is a mistake to say the Nigerian government is talking to bandits.

TYLER Durdlen did a good job on how a country dies gradually without its inhabitants knowing what is happening because both the brilliant and the dullard get tasked. He said those living during the decline of Rome were likely unaware that anything was happening. The decline took place over a couple of hundred years. Anyone living during the decline only saw a small part of what was happening and likely never noticed it as anything other than ordinary.

Ajasin would always be remembered for his work on the Action Group blueprint for education which was carried into the Second Republic as the free education programme of the Unity Party of Nigeria UPN

Nigeria has exhausted all possibilities and can only produce misery and pain for the vast majority of the people, but there is no visionary leadership to appreciate the need to retool

For us in Afenifere, our job was cut out as the subject of returning Nigeria to federalism was very cardinal

We produced a manifesto that had federalism as the first item, but our presidential candidate refused to lift the manifesto once or speak on the content