From last week continues the narrative on the 1959 elections, the nation-wide campaigns and the accusations and counter- accusations by rival party leaders of infractions by supporters of other parties. For instance, Alhaji Aliyu Makama Bida had said that Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his supporters had violated Northern traditions, for which they would never be […]

From last week continues the narrative on the elections which were to be held in 312 single member constituencies throughout the country of which 174 were in Northern Nigeria, 62 in Western Nigeria, 73 in Eastern Nigeria and three in Lagos as part of the 1959 general election The dissolved House was elected in 1954 and […]

This is the concluding part of the piece which from last week continues the narrative of how Nigeria, just five years after independence, was asked to host the Commonwealth Conference to find a solution to the Rhodesian leadership crisis which Britain itself could not solve.  Twenty-two Commonwealth leaders accepted to attend the conference.  The January 1966 […]

From last week continues the narrative of the plan by the British Monarch to play host to President Bola Tinubu and his wife on March 18 in Windsor Castle, with its significance in the light of similar hostings of past Nigerian and other African heads of state over the years. President William Taubman of Liberia […]

From last week continues the narrative tracing the history of how some past Nigerian leaders were hosted by the British Monarch after it emerged that President Bola Tinubu and his wife would similarly be hosted on March 18 in Windsor Castle instead of Buckingham Palace On that visit, he was accompanied by Alhaji Nuhu Bamali, […]

On Wednesday, March 18, President Bola Tinubu, along with his wife, Remi Tinubu, will be hosted by the British Monarch, King Charles III (77). The state visit will hold at Windsor Castle and not at Buckingham Palace.   Wikipedia informed us that Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about […]

This is the concluding part of this piece which last week  introduced  the narrative of how two youth groups emerged and launched public campaigns in support of  the undeclared presidential ambition of General Sani Abacha, which eventually culminated to his adoption as the presidential candidate of all the five political parties at the time. Despite […]

From last week continues the narrative of the arrest and detention of several labour and pro-democracy activists, among them NADECO members, by the Abacha regime. There were also court dramas, including the trial of Chief MKO Abiola on treason charges. There were no known instances of forced exile as a means of political control, although […]

From last week continues General Babangida’s address where he announced that  the AFRC had accepted the principles of grassroot democratic two-party system. He added that: “It is our belief that the system shall (among others):   (g) Ensure the emergence of a new, more dedicated and more genuine leadership cadre, which will not be a mere proxy […]

From last week continues the narrative that  a one-party state may not materialise in Nigeria. Among politicians who have seen the high and low of this is Alhaji Sule Lamido who as National Secretary of the defunct SDP was one of those who signed the document that created the Interim National Government Almost 46 years […]