Like el-Rufai is poised to do with Kaduna teachers, the Nigerian electorate must be ready East, West, North and South to purge the system of the incompetent, corrupt, visionless and moribund thieving elite

It is a big tragedy for law enforcement in Nigeria that it’s operatives are now not different from thugs or area boys that can be deployed by politicians in street brawl.It is at the same time a testimony of the gradual collapse of state when security agents become tools in what appears as gang wars

THE 2017 Special Counsel ongoing investigation in the United States led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel is a credible manual for any country that wants to fight corruption in the real sense of it and not just theatrics or propaganda.

I bring you greetings in the name of Jesus Christ whom you serve and your motivation for leading prayers across Nigeria.

THE Nigerian Army has of late been behaving like what Max Siollun  in his classic “Soldiers Of Fortune” called “a government-in- waiting”. I saw on Channels TV on Saturday an advertisement by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai on his proposed “empowerment programme for internally displaced persons”.

AS we assemble for this discourse, Nigeria  is experiencing the most degrading conditions in her economic, social and political life. Most indices are negative and the worst possible divisions are all over the land.

VETERAN journalist Yakubu Mohammed of defunct Newswatch fame did a yeoman’s job for opponents of restructuring in his piece “Mind Your Language” published  in The Guardian of October 5, 2017.

WHEN my good friend, Bayo Fabiyi said the statue of Chief Obafemi Awolowo recently unveiled by the governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, looks more like the chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Oyegun; I had to get to the site at the beginning of Lateef Jakande Road in Ikeja Area of Lagos.

Milton Friedman must have had the Federal Government of Nigeria in mind when he penned the above words. Just like Obafemi Awolowo rightly warned against unitary Nigeria in his  book ‘Thoughts on The Nigerian Constitution’ in 1967, the Federal Government of Nigeria is now afflicted with ashes touch. Said Awo:  ‘Besides, it is not difficult to forecast that the work of government in Nigeria under a unitary constitution is bound to become unduly complex, inextricably tangled,extremely unwieldy and wasteful, and productive of disunity and discontent amongst the people. Unless we have veritable supermen at the helm of affairs,the administrative machinery would eventually disintegrate and break down under the crushing weight of ‘bureaucratic centralism’.

ANY honest observer, who has seen how Nigeria has steadily and systematically moved from being a country of great promise to a country of great problems; anyone who knows that you have to look back to the past, instead of look forward, to see this country’s best years of national and regional progress, its years of great public and missionary schools and great education, of proud infrastructural achievements and the best life experiences – any such honest observer? can easily list more than a hundred reasons why Nigeria needs restructuring to stop the drift towards the development abyss.

For resource ownership and control, the existing states should provisionally be the constitutive units, but after voluntary mergers and referendum/s, six substantially homogenous regions are likely to emerge in the South

There have been so much celebration of the “whistle blowing” policy of this administration and it cannot afford to be deaf to this blown whistle

Oshiomole argued that while the current democratic dispensation started in 1999, the call for the restructuring of the country was instigated by those who lost out in the 2015 general elections

Almost in unison, the demand by the citizens crying for restructuring is that we should return to the pattern of division of power and functions that prevailed between the Federal Government and the Regions from the 1950s to January 1966. This aspect of restructuring has, in this debate, become conceivably the easy task in the process of restructuring

The Nigerian Army completes the lawless operations for the week by conducting a raid on a United Nations , UN, facility in Maiduguri in violation of international protocols