From last week continues the narrative on the architectural splendour of Buckingham Palace, the royal residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch in the UK, compared to the Presidential Villa in Abuja which was built to isolate the leader from the people IT has been a focal point for the British people at times of national […]

From last week continues the narrative of how Abuja came to become Nigeria’s seat of government following the failed April 22, 1990 coup and how it has fared over the years compared to other countries’ federal capital  Captain Bade Omowa from Oka, Akoko in Ondo State and others played a major role in rescuing General […]

From last week continues the speech by  Gen Murtala Mohammed on why Lagos lost its federal capital status to Abuja and government’s decision to maintain special defence and security arrangements in Lagos, which will henceforth be designated a ‘special area’. “These arrangements will be carefully worked out and written into the new Constitution. Kaduna and […]

When General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (82) moved the seat of the central government from Lagos to Abuja on December 12, 1991, he did so to hide himself. You can’t be active when you are hiding.   On August 17, 1991, he commissioned the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. The bridge is the biggest project ever executed  […]

From last week continues  the narrative of Federal government’s intervention in African countries The advance team visited Masvingo, Victoria falls, before we finally settled down in Harare. Bob Marley and other musicians played on the eve of Zimbabwe’s independence. It was during that time that Samora Machael of Mozambique described the new country as the “jewel of […]

From last week continues the narrative of how English-speaking West African countries led by Nigeria set up ECOMOG to intervene and bring peace to Liberia under the aegis of a Standing Mediation Committee, SMC. SMC also set up a special emergency fund for the war-torn country to deal with refugee problems, among others. Shortly after Federal […]

From last week continues the narrative of Nigeria’s continued contributions to global peace keeping operations, with the Nigeria police featuring prominently in this regard in Congo and other places  ITS involvement followed an urgent re quest from the UN Secretary General to the Nigerian government for 300 policemen to assist the UN force to maintain […]

In 1970-1971, Nigeria increased its contributions to the OAU budget to N150,000, 47 per cent over the 1968-1969 contributions, making it the third largest contributor to the organisation’s annual budget

From last week continues the narrative how Nigeria played the big brother to other African countries, especially to South Africa DR. Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (81), who later became the President of South Africa from 16 June 1999 to 24 September 2008, used one of those offices at Iganmu. He was then the head of the […]

Suddenly, we got lost on the global radar. All these could be traced to our internal problems or maybe our poor economy.

The Middle East is also a place where threats that will menace the world in the 2030s may play out early, including nuclear proliferation, extreme weather and even greater inequality, as weak countries fall further behind

These ideas and beliefs influenced the American Revolution and the French Revolution, which gave birth to the philosophy of liberalism and instituted forms of government that attempted to put the principles of the Enlightenment philosophers into practice.

From last week continues the narrative on liberal democracy, its shortcomings, source, forms and distinction with other systems of governance  LIBERAL democracy traces its origins—and its name—to the Age of Enlightenment. The conventional views supporting monarchies and aristocracies were challenged at first by a relatively small group of Enlightenment intellectuals who believed that human affairs […]

From last week continues the narrative that if the views of Dr Kayode Fayemi and  Chief Olusegun Obasanjo are anything to go by Nigerians should be worried at the validity of our democracy AFTERWARDS empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasises evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. It is a fundamental part of the scientific […]

While speaking at the event, the ex-governor criticised the “winner-takes-all” nature of Nigeria’s democracy