Conflicts that have occurred in Plateau particularly Jos and environs cannot be divorced from the impact of colonial rule and tin mining

If true democracy is to be indigenised in Nigeria, INEC must play interventionist role in party structure and organisation

General Babangida again threw open the Presidential race and many showed interest

Nigeria is an interesting country and our tragedy is that we know what is right and we never do what is right

It should be pointed out that the transition progamme such as ours, is by definition, a controlled opening of the political stage

On January 2, 1992, all the elected governors of the 30 states were sworn-in and the entire federal cabinet was dissolved

NEC, which claimed that the manifesto of all the political associations studied “cluster around the centre of the ideological spectrum, a little to the left and a little to the right”

All the political parties should publicly renounce violence; particularly political killings, as part of our political culture

Nigeria’s finest moment was on January 11, 1976 at Addis Ababa in Ethiopia at an extra ordinary conference on liberation struggles in Africa. General Murtala Mohammed spoke that afternoon and the world listened

Today, the estate and the venue where we hosted the festival-National Theatre have become dilapidated and abandoned. The FESTAC Village which was planned to be a model city is fast becoming a jungle city now

At eighty, you have devoted your entire life so far for the unity of Nigeria and maybe you will devote a little more attention to the thorny issues of restructuring this political system without which you have no guarantee of good life for the majority of our people

No doubt the regions were doing well. Tragically on February 21 1966, General Ironsi told the nation that “It has become apparent to all Nigerians that rigid adherence to ‘regionalism’, was the bane of the last regime

The Tiv NA Council was dissolved in 1959 and from this date onward, no local election was held to elect representatives to the central and District Councils; this meant that UMBC supporters who formed the majority of Tiv population were denied their rights to vote

The success of the Yandev revolt spurred people in other parts of Tiv land to irresistible acts of violence

The Tiv riot and the independence of the Middle Belt played a key role later in the creation of more states in 1967