The unidentified problem of Nigeria: From forced migration to AUTOSUCOM Revolution (I)
By Victor-Bandele Dada For more than six decades, Nigeria has debated its problems without ever adequately identifying the problem beneath the problems. Economists have diagnosed fiscal instability. Political scientists have examined institutional weakness. Sociologists have studied ethnic and religious fragmentation. Development specialists have focused on poverty, unemployment, food insecurity and human capital. Security analysts have examined […]
Buhari, Fayose, Ugwuanyi, and this horrid life
VEXED voices have, in exasperation, been asking where Reverend Father Ejike Camillus Mbaka is. They are absolutely right who expect the priest to speak up. People should ask where Bola Tinubu is, the one who covets the feat of unknotting Pandora’s Box. People should be asking where many other previously vocal Nigerians are.
Edo 2016 and the Obaseki agenda
AS the current administration winds down in Edo state, the people are beside themselves, singing “thank you” to the governor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, for a job well done. For obvious reasons, the only exception are members of the opposition who seem to see nothing good in all the amazing developing witnessed across every nook and cranny since its inception in 2009.
Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Fulani Herdsmen and the Return of Neighbourhood Watch
In my earlier article titled “Fulani Herdsmen: Mr Buhari, Please, Keep Your Sympathies”, I had criticized the governor of Enugu State thus: “…what was all that smile about from the governor of Enugu State,
The memo Akenzua did on Aburi
WHEN on March 15 last year, the Secretary of the Benin traditional council, Mr. Frank Irabor announced that “the leopard is ill in the Savannah bush”, we knew exactly what has happened to the OmoN’oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa (CFR), the 38th Oba of Benin, who was born on June 22, 1923 and ascended the throne on March 23, 1979. Well to an average Benin man or woman, such an announcement is well understood.
Fulani Herdsmen: An Interesting Conversation With An Old Friend
The following discussion took place on my Facebook friends page on May 2nd 2016. Since it is already in the public realm I have taken the liberty of.sharing it in my column as well.
