NOTE: The first part of this series might create the impression that this is political commentary. Even the Editor was alarmed enough to call me about it. Readers need to understand the reason for the historical summary. Every promise involves two elements, the promise and the entity making the promise. Nigerian political history has demonstrated that political alliances don’t last; and the promises made are never fulfilled. APC is another coalition whose sustainability will determine the fate of the promises made to us. Please read on.

I love Kano. It holds some of my best memories. It was the city that introduced me to trade unionism. I was a youth corper and had been rejected by some employers when the then Civil Service Technical Workers Union offered me a place for my primary assignment.

By Denrele Animasaun “Leaders become great,not because of their power,but because of their ability to empower other”-John Maxwell This November 10th,  marks the 20th anniversary of Ken Saro Wiwa’s death. Certainly in the UK, the media delivered a number of columns honouring him. I did the same thing three years ago. Ken was executed on trumped […]

About eleven days ago, Babatunde Raji Fashola, former Governor of Lagos State was assigned with a higher national responsibility as Minister of Power, Works and Housing. Before this appointment, many people prominent among them, inhabitants of his own Lagos State worked assiduously to truncate the ambition.

The new Minister of Defence, Mr. Muhammed Dan Ali, has made what might be the first official statement by this administration on the new agitation by Biafrans for a separate country. Nigeria, he noted on his initial statement on assuming office as Defence Minister, is buffeted by “many indices of destabilisation.”