In The National Interest: UK launch exposes deep frustrations about Nigeria, by Olu Fasan
Last week, on October 7, the London School of Economics, LSE, hosted the UK launch of my book In The National Interest: The Road to Nigeria’s Political, Economic and Social Transformation. Two LSE faculties—the Department of International Relations and the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa—collaborated to organise the book launch, which included a public lecture. […]
Much ado about Achebe on Awo (2)
WAR is not a piece of cake. If you want to fight you better be ready. Biafra was neither ready nor equipped for the secession bid.
A soulless and drowning nation
NIGERIA is under water, literally. From the Adamawa highlands where the Benue enters Nigeria to Lokoja where it joins with the more majestic Niger for a single course to the Atlantic via the massive alluvial fan we call the Niger Delta, the country conjures images of the primeval flood at the beginning of creation.
The case for Statelessness
IT would have been interesting to hear what the outcome of the aborted North-East Summit would say about issues such as the clamour for additional State(s) in the South-East, or on the demand for “true” federalism. Alas, the powerful Governors torpedoed it by simply staying away, and hinting that the Summit could be hijacked by hostile interests.
Ondo: Can they cut down the Iroko?
IT’s been three full months since Comrade Adams Oshiomole was returned to government house in Benin. In the build-up to the July 14 election, it was as if the contest for the governor’s sit could have gone in the direction of either of the two dominant parties, the ACN and the PDP, in the state.
‘They’ should do something…. who are ‘they’? (2)
I ended the first part of this article on how Ghanaians helped rebuild their broken country. The foundation for Ghana’s rebirth was laid by Flt Lt Jerry Rawlings, a military dictator who used strong arms, including the execution of three former Heads of State, to sound the death knell for corruption in Ghana.
