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 […]
Tarka and the lingering Tiv/Fulani clash
The Tiv riot and the independence of the Middle Belt played a key role later in the creation of more states in 1967
Russia, English spies and the Nerve agent
FOR the past few weeks, the newspapers have been full of stories about Russia killing an English Russian spy with a radioactive nerve agent poison. All of the West is getting hot under the collar claiming that the hit was ordered by Putin himself.
Corrupting the uncorrupted
Nigeria did not know corruption in its present form until British colonialists introduced it; part of the colonial policy was to corrupt the emergent elite as a way of compromising them
Dapchi BRT Express service
The APC Federal Government’s cheap triumphalism in the wake of the Dapchi girls’ release was clearly meant to divert attention from its failure to secure boarding schools in the North-East and thus prevent a repeat of the Chibok horror
African continental free trade area: Matters arising
THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement was endorsed on Wednesday 21stMarch 2018, by forty four African countries in Kigali Rwanda; nine other African Union member countries, including Nigeria and South Africa have delayed assent to the treaty.
