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

When the Military came to power they jettisoned the idea of development plans and replaced it with rolling plans

I do not think there is a nation anywhere else in the World which devotes most resources to the purchase of vehicles for its officials at all levels than Nigeria

Many of the elders and indigenes of Kogi State, who were privy to his underground effort hold him in high esteem in helping to actualise the dream and aspirations of hundreds of thousands

Dr. Ekwueme’s committee arrived at the conclusion that the request to join Anioma is
unanimous

President Shagari helped also by conceding that all Federal appointments from Imo and Anambra states must be endorsed by Dr. Ekwueme

Why Alhaji Shagari picked Dr. Ekwueme is still a mystery and only him can explain

Of course, at the beginning there was no Nigeria; but when was this beginning? Was it 37,000 years ago, when we have the earliest evidence of human activity in the Nigerian area…