Crossing the red line by the Opposition and Government(3), by Eric Teniola
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 […]
One by one those senators are departing
WITH the passage of Senator Ayomide Fasanmi (September 27, 1925 to July 29, 2020) the number of the ninety-five senators, who served between October 1979 and October 1983, still alive has been reduced.
Abused Decree No. 34 and demand for restructuring (3)
EFFECTIVE liaison and co-ordination should be established between the Federal authority and its provincial counterparts, if we are to avoid the pitfalls of the recent past and make a more significant impact both internally as well as externally.
Abused Decree no. 34 and demand for restructuring (2)
The piece, last week, traced the origin of Decree 34 which transferred all the autonomous powers of the four regions to the cenre. It continues, this week, with the fate of that decree. ON May 26, 1967, the Military Governor of the then Eastern Region, Lt-Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu addressed the joint meeting of the advisory […]
Abused Decree no. 34 and demand for restructuring
SUNDAY May 24 was the 54thanniversary of the promulgation of Decree number 34 by Major General Johnson Thomas Umanakwe Aguiyi Ironsi (March 3, 1924-July 29, 1966). Few people remembered. It was the decree that transferred all the autonomous powers of the four regions then to the centre. The regions then were Northern Region, Eastern Region, […]
The undying legacy of Odua (3)
By Eric Teniola ON June 20, 1962, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Prime Minister of the Federation, appointed a Commission headed by Justice George Baptist Ayodola Coker, to inquire into the financial and investment policies and practices, the management and the business operations of six statutory corporations in Western Nigeria since October 1, 1954. The […]
