Prof Ben Nwabueze Archives

RUGA settlements’ controversy pushing divisions in the country to near-breaking point

On August 7, 201912:00 pmIn News, Viewpointby Bankole

FROM cattle colonies to RUGA settlements in every state of the federation: From what we know of the cattle colony scheme, based on a presentation by the then Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbe, the cattle colony scheme is not a scheme for the settlement of Fulani herdsmen. Here is what he said in his presentation: “We are talking of colonies because 20, 30, or 40 ranchers can share the same colony. A ranch is usually owned by an individual or a company with sometimes very few cattle. Some have more than 200 or 300 cows. In a cattle colony, you could find 30,000 cows owned by different owners.

One Nigeria: Are we compatible? – Prof. Ben Nwabueze

On January 20, 20182:02 pmIn News, Politicsby Nwafor

Viewed simply as a physical entity encompassing 75 per cent of the territorial area of the state called Nigeria and 60 per cent of its population, a united Northern Nigeria poses no necessary incompatibility with the unity of the country.

Biafra: Ekwueme, Anyaoku, Nwabueze not our commanders —IPOB

On March 11, 20161:44 amIn News, Trendingby akintayo eribake

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said that the former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, and the former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku were not commanders of the organisation as erroneously believed.

Nigeria: ‘Roadmap to stability, progress and Unity’

On September 21, 20136:27 pmIn Politics, Special Reportby vanguard

In the aftermath of the bloody conflicts of 1991 – 93, the bloodiest in the country’s more than 3,000 years of recorded history, the people of Ethiopia faced the fundamental issue squarely, and the solution they worked out at meetings of the ethnic nationalities, based on the tragic lessons of the bloody conflicts, was embodied in the 1995 Constitution, which is still, 17 years after (1995 – 2012), the basis of the continued corporate existence of the diverse “Nations, Nationalities and Peoples” comprised in Ethiopia.