Ever since Nigeria got her independence in 1960, successive governments have made several attempts at creating a supreme body of laws, or constitutions, for the easy administration of the polity. Nigeria was founded on the false tripod of three major tribes: Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, whereas, there were over 250-500 ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.

When you have a powerful ruler, you have more local government councils, then you have more states created in your area. But as I said earlier on, in the first republic there were three regions; Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was in charge of Eastern Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the Western Nigeria and Ahmadu Bello for Northern Nigeria. They created this federation and they said everyone must be equal. No citizen of one region was superior to the other.

As Nigeria rolls out the red carpet to celebrates its 56th independence Anniversary today, stakeholders in the sports sector have frowned at the negative role that administrators have played in the seeming poor performance posted by athletes in their respective fields.

I had a lot of suitors then but along the line I met Olorogun Felix Ibru, got pregnant and had a child. I left Nigeria for the United Kingdom in 1967

Players, experts and stakeholders in the aviation sector have said the current state of the country’s airports can only be improved if some of them are concessioned to private investors. The stakeholders made their views known while reviewing the state of Nigeria aviation in the last 56 years in a conference on Privatisation and Concession of Airports organised by Check In Nigeria, an industry resource and consultancy outfit.