Why there should be devolution of powers – Ekweremadu

Why there should be devolution of powers – Ekweremadu

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has said that Nigeria is better as a united country. Dr Ekweremadu said after delivering a lecture on Constitutionalism and the challenges of leadership in Africa: an evaluation of tested models’, in New York. The event was organised by the Centre for Media and Peace Initiatives, a New York-based international... Read More

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October 2, 2017

The Thread: “The President and VP’s obsession to ‘not allow Nigeria break’ is ridiculous” | Chude Jideonwo lectures the FG

President Buhari’s October 1 speech was not well received on TwitterNG. Nigerians already flagged President Buhari’s blame game as useless. Chude Jideonwo tackles the notion that Nigeria is indivisible. See below: Nonsense. — Chude Jideonwo (@Chude) October 1, 2017 Reactions: https://t.co/KPrWEEZQs2 My take on this issue&the related theme of agitation. — Resistance is Futile... Read More

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September 24, 2017

Nigeria is like a marriage where no one understands their individual roles – Tinubu

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said Nigeria will only make progress when it is restructured. Key excerpts: If the call for restructured is consistently ignored things will be in a constant state of disequilibrium and irritation. Such a situation tends toward the maintenance of an unsatisfactory status... Read More

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August 27, 2017

Why we withdrew the quit notice to Igbos – Arewa youth

The Northern youth coalition led by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) said the decision to rescind on the quit notice was in order to show respect for President Muhammadu Buhari. Sequence of events: Northern youth issue quit notice to Igbos – asking them to leave before October 1, 2017. The reason given was that... Read More

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August 24, 2017

Kano organises special prayer for Buhari, Nigeria’s unity

Groups coming under the umbrella of Conference of Patriotic Nigerians Thursday, at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano organised special prayers for President Muhammadu Buhari and the sustenance of peace and unity in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the groups comprising civil society organisations, religious groups, students among others, also prayed... Read More

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August 23, 2017

Hate and violence on social media can jeopardise Nigeria’s unity – Chief of Air Staff

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar at a workshop on information management for public relations officers in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Tuesday has warned against the use of the social media for promoting hate speeches and spreading falsehood. Key excerpts: “We are all not unaware of the use of social media by... Read More

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July 20, 2017

Opinion: The mantra, ‘Nigerian unity is not negotiable’, is pseudo-nationalism

by Jideofor Adibe Nigerians love mantras – statements or slogans repeated frequently enough that they begin to sound like established facts or self-evident truths. Recently in this column (on June 22, 2017), I interrogated the mantra of ‘generation shift’, which was renewed with vigour following the victory of Emmanuel Macron, 39, in the... Read More

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July 15, 2017

Nigeria’s unity is negotiable – Wole Soyinka

One of Nigeria’s literary giants and Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has dismissed the arguments that the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable. Speaking on Friday in Bayelsa state, Soyinka said restructuring should be considered. “We must stop confusing and mixing up the argument, we are mixing up the argument. It is very unfortunate for our leaders... Read More

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July 1, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: The intellectual case against Nigeria’s break up (Pt III)

by Farooq Kperogi What I have said about the Yoruba people (see part II) is also true of many other ethnic groups in Nigeria. But, for reasons of space, I will only highlight the constructedness of Hausa, Igbo, and Ogoni. The notion of Hausa as a collective ethnic identity, particularly in its current form, is... Read More

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June 24, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: The intellectual case against Nigeria’s break up (Pt II)

by Farooq Kperogi I want to begin this week’s instalment by responding to a challenge thrown at me by a reader. The reader said India’s relative national cohesion is a consequence of its monolingual character. That, of course, implies that Nigeria’s linguistic plurality is the reason for its tendency toward fissiparity. That is completely inaccurate,... Read More

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June 17, 2017

Opinion: Too late to save divided, separate, hostile and unequal Nigeria

by Bayo Olu We have witnessed the independence of Slovenia from the former Yugoslavia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the division of the former Czechoslovakia, and the separation of both Eritrea from Ethiopia and South Sudan from Sudan. Numerous of successful secessions have allowed people greater freedom and self-determination: Greek independence from the Ottoman... Read More

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June 13, 2017

Reuben Abati: Igbo haters, the Arewa ultimatum and our nation

by Reuben Abati Fifty years after the civil war ended, Igbos do not yet feel a sense of belonging, acceptance or safety in the Federation called Nigeria. The sad part is that this belief is shared not just by the generation that witnessed the war and its deadly consequences, but Igbos across all generations,... Read More

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April 28, 2017

North should blame itself for being most backward – Atiku

by Azeez Adeniyi Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Thursday said the north must stop blaming other for lack of development of the region. Abubakar spoke at the public presentation of Daily Stream newspaper at the Banquet Hall, Nigeria Airforce Conference Centre, Kado, Abuja. He said Nigerians must continue to live together as one country amidst... Read More