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Tunde Bakare: Why I distanced myself from the APC merger
by Tunde Bakare On whether I see the APC as credible alternative to the PDP, particularly with the type of people the party is currently fraternizing with, let me put it…
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Opinion: Nigeria – Looking back the last 100 years and moving forward
by Jaye Gaskia The point being made here is very simple, yet it is the point that this inept ruling class wants concealed. The point is that Nigeria has been…
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Atiku Abubakar: What Twitter has taught me so far
by Atiku Abubakar This year, on this blog I intend to set a good example, devoting a sizable potion of my time and attention to matters of public policy and…
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Okey Ikechukwu: Those who call 1914 a mistake are mixing things up badly
by Okey Ikechukwu No one cried foul over Awo’s politics in the South West before he engineered Zik’s ouster using ethnic solidarity. Before then he was aware of himself as…
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Opinion: Will Nigeria exist 100 years from now?
by Muhammed Jameel Yusha'u In December 2012, when we were busy debating in the British House of Commons on Chinua Achebe’s book, There was a country; a fellow African…
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Opinion: The centenary of an Amalgamation that never existed
by Jibrin Ibrahim It was the Sardauna of Sokoto who first referred to the amalgamation as “the mistake of 1914”. That was in the early 1950’s, when he flagged the…
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Perry Brimah: 100 interesting facts you should know about Nigeria
by Dr. Perry Brimah Not really a northern caucus, but it was late M. K. O. Abiola that orchestrated and sponsored the Buhari /Idiagbon coup and then again the Babangida…
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Simon Kolawole: Rethinking the mistake of 1914
by Simon Kolawole But what was the “Mistake of 1914”? Was it the fact or the act of amalgamation? Those who blame the “fact of amalgamation” say there should never…
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‘Stop taking Nigerians for granted’ – Atiku warns FG
by Oke Efagene Nigeria former Vice President, Abubakar Atiku has warned the Federal Government not to take Nigerians for granted. Atiku, said it would be wrong to take their resilience for…
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Opinion: Cracking the Da Vinci Code in the Nigerian system
by Lanre Daodu Let's talk about the dreaded,hydra-headed monster called corruption.Corruption has since become legalized institution in the Nigerian System and to beat your chest that you are a different…
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Ochereome Nnanna: Take note Fashola, Nigeria is 100
by Ochereome Nnanna There should be no need to question whether Nigeria will be 100 years by January 2014. Nigeria was conceived and born on January 1, 1914. It was…
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Elnathan John: Peckham smells of kpomo and crayfish and other gist
by Elnathan John Lord Lugard Lord Lugard was sleeping with a girl and the girl, probably without any clothes on or worse, in post coital excitement, blurted out the…
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