The National Assembly only amended the constitution to suit its members. The National Assembly did not amend the constitution. They only rewrote the constitution to help themselves.

Professor Chinwe Nora Obaji, in a stirring speech, lamented that in spite of the contributions of the Igbo people and the fact that Igbo ingenuity and professionals are in high demand across the globe, Nigeria continues to sidestep the aspirations of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups to serve at the highest level, forty years after the civil war ended

You don’t move to university without finishing primary and secondary schools, so the primaries which we have seen so far are not encouraging especially in PDP. What we are still seeing is not encouraging because the governors have hijacked the system in most states and that is not good for our democracy.

The leaked Special Branch report about the January 15 rebellion, has been in the public domain for many years. It beggars belief that this vital official document with intimate details about the rebellion, escaped the scrutiny of Nigerian journalists all these years (since 1966).

What exactly do you know about the circumstances surrounding the death of your father? Let me start by saying that I was 10 years old and was not even in the country when that coup took place. I was sent to Britain to finish my primary school.So in July or so 1965, I left the […]

It is very clear that the comments of both Mbu and Osoba were very irresponsible the motive of which we are yet to know. There must be a motive for Mbu to have opened an old wound. The question is: what is their motive? Nigerians must certainly be interested in knowing what they are up to.

It was not intended to be the main issue when Nigeria’s one time High Commissioner to London, Chief Matthew Mbu remarked, in a recent newspaper interview, that the country’s first and only Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, died, not of gun shots in the January 15th 1966 coup.

The PC agreed whereupon the Major seized his rifle and passed it to one of his men. The PC then led the group to round up the remaining members of the Police guard. At the back of the house, i.e. at the creek side, they found a PC armed with a rifle and accompanied by a Police dog.

Again if I am asked who to believe between Osoba and Alhaji MD Yusuf, Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi and Alhaji Gambo Jimeta who are all seasoned policemen that were involved either directly or indirectly with the investigation into Tafawa Balewa’s death,

I remained at Sango-Ota up to January 15th 1966, the day the first military coup took place in Nigeria. On the night of the coup, I was at a police checkpoint in Sango Ota when a convoy of Army Land Rover, Trucks, and two Peugeot saloon cars were moving from Lagos to Abeokuta and we had no cause to suspect anything sinister because they were military vehicles presumably on a complimentary patrol to restore order.

Then they dragged me along with them to the main house. On the way one of them started talking in Ibo and the major seemed to question him. I don’t know what was said but it looked as if this man was leading the way.

Well, to be honest, the only problem we are having with the forthcoming elections is the personal ambition of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. It is this single ambition that is heating up the polity because it is a violation of the PDP programme on rotation and also it’s trying to create a dichotomy of North/South divide in a way we have never experienced before.

Well, to be honest, the only problem we are having with the forthcoming elections is the personal ambition of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. It is this single ambition that is heating up the polity because it is a violation of the PDP programme on rotation and also it’s trying to create a dichotomy of North/South divide in a way we have never experienced before.

IF you are looking for miracles, there is one that refuses to cease. If you doubt miracles, you most likely have not heard about Nigeria, a country that has defied all predictions about her, plodding on to 50 to the consternation of its tenuous tenders and certified critics who ruled it dead decades ago and continue to reel out the dreadful forecasts ever so often.

They argued that several litigations could follow the conduct of elections and these litigations are meant to be concluded before the swearing-in of the President and governors and shifting the conduct of elections could affect the handover date and so, may require constitutional amendment which could cost more time. But Chekwas Okorie, Godswill Nnaji and Bashir Tofa think otherwise.