The creation of the regions by the British colonial masters for administrative convenience had put them under the control of the Igbo in the East, Yoruba in the West and Hausa/Fulani in the North. The uneasy cohabitation held but not for long.

Democracy is popularly defined as a system of government designed by the people for the people. The adoption of this style as best practice of governance by several nation states is supported by the far reaching economic and social progress made by those countries with strong democratic principles and structures.

I listened as over 80 per cent of the respondents argued and vehemently too that Siasia was worth more than N15 million. That if we could give a failure like Lagerback over N30 million a month, Siasia should collect no less.

Hi Readers! I had no clear-cut plan in my mind when I shooed Michel and his wife Lucy off to nanny’s room for the night. It wasn’t with an aim that they would forget their quarrel, kiss and make up in the intimacy of nanny’s room, but still, that wouldn’t have been a bad thing.

When he announced it, his opponents were already waiting, and their counter: they placed a pawn before him to stump or check the move of his knight. I am talking about Ibrahim Babangida, whom Chidi Amuta has hyperbolically celebrated as “Prince of the Niger” – a sort of Machiavellian archetype from Minna.