Ultimately, 2027 must not be about North versus South, or Fulani versus Ijaw or Igbo, or APC versus PDP versus ADC. It must be about results. It must be a test of leadership, competence, and empathy.”— Dakuku Peterside “2027: Battle for the Soul of the North”  It really doesn’t take too much to be objective if […]

“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards”,– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks In the nineteenth century, many African communities exchanged their lands and even their kin for beads, mirrors, trinkets, and other fanciful objects of vanity that European traders dangled before them. These […]

“Profound definitions do not refute superficial ones, but, supplementing them, include them in themselves“- Georgi Plekhanov  Defining Nigeria today or, for that matter, in 1909, must proceed from the perceptive recognition of the profound place that the North occupies in the formation of the country. It is a historical fact proven by contemporary realities, that without […]

“They have not to recapitulate the past, but to build up the future”– Karl Marx In the discussion of the “National Question”, we Nigerians must not be reduced to recapitulating the past but actually to be seized with building up the future of our country. We must be made aware that the “National Question” remains a recurring […]

“And as in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he is and does, so in historical struggles one must distinguish still more the phrases and fancies of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality”— Karl Marx The […]

“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 […]

“Active valour may often be the present of nature, but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline”— Edward Gibbon In Nigeria today, where reckless ambition and the pursuit of wealth often overshadow patriotism, one man’s life still shines as a counterpoint. That man is  Muhammed Abba Gana, CON, former Minister of […]

“History will judge those who stood by and said nothing, when they could have done something“–  The Honourable Jeremy Corbin, MP Eighty years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the United Nations was created as humanity’s great experiment in collective security and shared destiny. Its Charter promised to “save succeeding generations from the […]

“But an active despair has often triumphed over the assurance of indolent success”—  Edward Gibbon The sense of active despair is the only resort that Nigerians are left with, to exhibit their repudiation of their state of anonymity and conditions of restless search for solutions to their pathetic and abject nothingness. Having been reduced to the […]

“In each successive revolution, the patient herd becomes the property of its new masters”–  Edward Gibbon The methodology involved in rescuing Nigeria from its state of listless drift and self-inflicted disaster, is to bring Nigerians back to their senses and to respect the tenets of good and effective governance that are obtaining elsewhere, as well as […]