Nigeria since 1999: When will the years begin to count? By Dakuku Peterside
Think of a Nigerian born in 1999, the year civilian rule came back. That person is twenty-seven now. They have never lived under a military government. But they may have finished school and not found a job. They have probably learned to plan trips around insecurity, and they almost certainly run a generator at home. […]
Boko Haram’s satanism: See where the politicisation of religion has led us
AMIDST the grief and outrage that sweep the land in the aftermath of Boko Haram’s latest acts of Satanism-AbubakarShekau and his fellow psychopaths are disciples of Satan-I crave the indulgence of the reader to allow me a moment to ask the simple question: How did we get here?
Decision-time for the South-West
PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo is a relation of mine. My late mother, who was from Abeokuta, was Obasanjo’s aunt. I think that makes Obasanjo my uncle.
Echoes of Racism
IF you have never heard of a man called Cliven Bundy, you don’t have to worry for he is one of those none entities you are better off not knowing. He was not even known anywhere outside his small village in the state of Nevada, that is, until recently when he singlehandedly challenged the might of the U.S. federal government – and won, even if it is a pyrrhic victory!
Commercialisation of education and the storm ahead
The youths, they say, “are the future of any nation”. In the light of this awareness, the process of youth education and development would be top priority on the list of objectives for any progressive nation.
ACF’s anti-Igbo memo (1)
IN May 2006, the National Political Reform Conference (NPRC) convened by President Olusegun Obasanjo, reached a unanimous decision to approve the creation of an additional state for the South East Zone to raise its stake to six states just like the others, even though North West has seven.
