Oriire and the courage to reject compromise, by Rotimi Fasan
After 56 harrowing days, the 44 abductees in the Oriire community of Ogbomoso LGA are now out of the forest. These are schoolchildren and their teachers. Two of the teachers had been killed after the abduction while another was killed on their school ground. A commercial bike rider was also killed as the abduction unfolded. But […]
A tale of two tragedies
IN the past one month, two members of my extended family have been killed by the scandalously inadequate Nigerian healthcare system.
Let a hundred flowers blossom
CHINA is an ancient civilization with such breath taking achievements like the Great Wall. However, it fully blossomed with its revolution which was sixty years yesterday, October 1. But China did not just take on the world; it was already ripe before the rest of humanity knew what was afoot.
Retributive justice in the nigerian political system
THE Nigerian political system, it is noted, has been characterized by a powerful ruling party and a disappearing but badly organized and comparatively weakened opposition at the federal level.
Sorry for my country at 49
ON October 1, 1960, Nigeria was in festive mood. The day had come at last. The British colonial rulers were going home. The Union Jack was coming down and the Green-White-Green, the most rhapsodic colour which portended a future of untrammelled economic possibilities and prosperity as well political stability, was going up.
Florida Autumn Retreat: Asaba unites to bury her dead… (11)
‘’The Troops murdered innocent men, women, and children in their thousands from Benin to Asaba. Nigeria lost in few months university graduates, and many PhD holders… .Among them were Permanent Secretaries, Medical Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Professionals, Clergymen and Missionaries. It remains the only war of such magnitude without a monument of remembrance.’’
—United Nations Observer, Canadian MP, Stephen Lewis, London Guardian, October 11, 1968.
