Why Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway (4), by Eric Teniola
This week continues the narrative on Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. In 1934, he, Vaughn, H.O. Davies and others became the leaders of the new Lagos Youth Movement (NYM), which in 1938 was renamed the Nigerian Youth Movement and came under the leadership of Dr. D.K. Abayomi. Three years later he was elected to the Legislative Council […]
Reconnecting to the global radar (5) By Eric Teniola
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 […]
Reconnecting to the global radar (4), By Eric Teniola
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 […]
Reconnecting to the global radar (3)
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
Reconnecting to the global radar (2), By Eric Teniola
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 […]
Reconnecting to the global radar, By Eric Teniola
Suddenly, we got lost on the global radar. All these could be traced to our internal problems or maybe our poor economy.
