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No force can break Nigeria – Orokpo

No force can break Nigeria – Orokpo

He is in the league of Nigerians like the former CBN governor, Charles Chukwuma Soludo and Nuhu Ribadu who were born the same year Nigeria got her independence. Mr Job Orokpo, a retired police officer, who was born on January 27, 1960, in this interview says in spite of crises here and there, Nigeria would not break up.

How successive govts ruined  Nigeria  – Junaid

How successive govts ruined Nigeria – Junaid

DR. Junaid Muhammed, a medical doctor, Convener, Coalition of Concerned Northern Politicians is a Second Republic member of the House of Representatives. He says at 52, Nigeria has nothing to celebrate because successive governments have failed the nation

Nigeria@52: National dialogue is overdue – Archbishop Adewale Martins

Nigeria@52: National dialogue is overdue – Archbishop Adewale Martins

NEW Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Metroplitan See, Most Rev. Adewale Martins, took a cursory look at the Nigerian State at 52 and concluded that the only viable pathway for the nation’s growth and development is a reversion to the ideals of our founding fathers which was based on true federalism. To him, this can only come about through a national conference of true representatives of the different peoples of the country

Nigeria@52: PREFACE: Nigeria: The search for good faith

Nigeria@52: PREFACE: Nigeria: The search for good faith

In a June 16, 1902, letter written by then American President Theodore Roosevelt, to Senator George F. Hoar, discussing the possibility of supporting the Filipinos should they decide on self-government, this view was expressed:
“Now I do not want to make a promise which may not be kept. Above all things, I want for myself and for the nation that there shall be good faith…. I ask you to believe that after much painful thought, and much groping and some uncertainty as to where my duty lay, I am now doing it as light has been given me to see”.

Nigeria@ 52: The elite must not set Nigeria on fire – Audu Ogbeh

Nigeria@ 52: The elite must not set Nigeria on fire – Audu Ogbeh

Chief Audu Ogbeh was the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the Obasanjo regime. He left the office following some disagreement with the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and defected to the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). In this interview with BEN AGANDE, he speaks on some of the issues that touch on his turbulent days as the PDP chairman and the state of the nation