“Profound definitions do not refute superficial ones, but, supplementing them, include them in themselves”- Georgi Plekhanov THERE are many deciding factors that inform or influence whether states or entities should come together as a federation. Mutually shared borders, for one, enables them to come together to enlarge their territories and also remove all artificial barriers and impediments […]

Despite the abstruse postulations of the proponents of restructuring, ordinary Nigerians were intelligent and perceptive enough to see through the arguments that were being posited as shallow and devoid of real meaning and content

“All great institutions are rooted and grounded in the soil”– John Buchan IN an era when political discourses in Nigeria are largely devoid of deep structural diagnosis, and when the subjects of such discourses are clouded by sentiments and are often unrelated to the requirements of nation-building, it behoves upon those with the interest and […]

“We are in the great crisis of this contention, and the part which men take, one way or the other, will serve to discriminate their characters and their principles”- Edmund Burke  THE seeming abdication of ministerial responsibilities and the almost tentative exercise of magisterial prerogatives in the discharge of duties by those in positions of power, […]