Nigeria is already maggot infested; may be its about time campaigners for restructuring suspend this appeasement and see how long the hegemonists can run this contraption before it answers the call of nature

WITHIN a month four of my friends turned 80 or 81. Nearly all of them are healthy except one who suffered an intolerable episode. I have also watched a lot of younger men look at us. Their look is suggestive of a combination of emotions, some of them contradictory. They wonder that we have reached this ripe old age. There is confusion about what these old men are still doing here, “why una never die”? There is blame that we are the cause of all the problems of Nigeria. We could not fix the problem yet we incessantly talk about them. The young feel that we are leaving them with the intolerable burden of fixing a broken Nigeria. There is impatience; get out of the way so that the young can fully accept the mantle of leadership.

Nigeria cannot survive in the long run as one nation-state if one section of the country has to provide the President in perpetuity

THE technological breakthroughs of our twenty-first century have opened up vast opportunities for untold wealth. But they have also unleashed new risks for individuals, firms and nations. To all intents and purposes, the wars of the future will not be fought with armoured tanks, bomber aircraft and heavy artillery; rather, they will be fought in cyberspace – on gleaming computer screens.

THE Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017-2020(ERGP) was designed with the broad objective of restoring growth, investing in social infrastructure and building a globally competitive economy. The Sunday Sun Newspaper’s Onyedika Aghedo’s interview with this writer on the feasibility of the ERGP follows hereafter.