IN 2010, all the telecom providers forced Nigerians into compulsory registration of all mobile phone sim cards, using the media. Supported by the National Communications Commission, NCC, Nigerians were forced to register their sim cards. It kicked off with long queues everywhere and quickly they commissioned some agents to register sims, in order to reduce the pressure in the registration fees quickly. These agents still dot street corners across the country today.

THE only way Nigerian politics can be cleansed and developed is when its ugly sides are revealed and those who adulterate it are exposed and punished. Very often, that exposure is done in a dog-eat-dog manner.

NIGERIANS are agreed that the nation has made some progress since 1999 in spite of what is happening to us presently as a nation. But the progress that has so far been made falls short of the general expectation of the masses who had in the 1980s and 1990s looked forward with eagerness to the enthronement of a democratic dispensation.

THE fear entertained in 1999 was that the military, having been in power for the last 29 out of the 33 years, would still continue to imperially dominate the political setting in the post military era which is supposed to be a full civilian government.

The success of our democratic institution depends largely on our understanding and re-evaluation of the Nigerian Equation as well as the development of a clearly defined National ideology.