Indeed it is an irony that as a young school teacher, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari (who was to later emerge as the First Executive President in the America-styled administration of the defunct Second Republic) has in 1948 written strongly against the amalgamation. The Northern opposition to the amalgamation process was to be re-enacted in 1953 […]

Having met all the regulatory demands after shelling out $2bn for the purchase of Multichoice, Canal+, last week, made some strategic appointments by way of activating a mandatory takeover of the African pay-TV giant. The field of play is about to change or has it dramatically changed already? David Mignot will serve as Chief Executive Officer, […]

“Active valour may often be the present of nature, but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline“– Edward Gibbon To borrow the words of John Buchan in The African Colony, history “is always in the happy position of judging from the high standpoint of accomplished fact.” It is from such a […]

By the time you read this, President Bola Tinubu may have read the traditional Independence Day national broadcast. It is usually full of platitudes used to inspire the citizenry, reassure them of the glorious promises of the nation despite present challenges, forge national unity and patriotism and encourage the people to be ready to lay down […]

Should it surprise Nigerians that in the lingering industrial dispute between Dangote Refinery and the oil unions, PENGASSAN and NUPENG, the NLC’s immediate response, its contribution to the matter, is to mobilise its members for a nationwide strike? Its call for a strike is based on the exaggerated influence of its tiny membership. The NLC and […]