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October 25, 2017

PDP national chairman open to all zones in the South – Makarfi

Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmed Makarfi, has said the office of the national chairman of the party is not restricted to any particular zone in the Southern part of Nigeria. Makarfi said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a meeting with aspirants who are looking to fill the... Read More

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Groundnut Economy: What is Ango Abdullahi talking about?

by Alexander O. Onukwue The Government College Umuahia, the buildings that came to be after the Ajayi Crowther structures in Badagry and the refineries, all were developed with money from the North. That is one way of interpreting the claim by Prof Ango Abdullahi, spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, made as part of... Read More

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‘Kaduna Declaration’ is a failed test on the Nigerian question

by Alex O. Onukwue What is the Nigerian Question? To put it in the form of a null hypothesis, the Nigerian question would read something along the line that ‘There is no significant benefit for all the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria to continue to exist together as one country under the present arrangement’. For the... Read More

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August 28, 2016

Demola Rewaju: For Nigeria, knocking on heaven’s doors

by Demola Rewaju In the aftermath of the loss of Goodluck Jonathan, my pain as one who had supported him stemmed not from the feeling of a personal loss but anger that he had seemed to assume that his mandate was a personal one that nobody had a right to feel more angered by than himself.... Read More

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‘Anybody from the South can contest for PDP national chairmanship’ – Markafi

Despite the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to zone its chairmanship to the South-West, the Chairman of the party’s national caretaker committee, Ahmed Markafi, on Monday, said that anyone from the South can contest for the chairmanship. Markafi stated this when he received the former chairman of Daar communications and an aspirant for... Read More

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Opinion: The fallacy of enforcing national unity

by Ugochukwu Amasike The threat of violence and force of arms can not guarantee or enforce Nigeria’s fragile “unity” forever. It is an exercise in futility to attempt to do so; the very idea of a “forced or enforced unity” is unnatural, even animals are not forced to live in unity. It has been almost half... Read More

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‘Leave Nnamdi Kanu, Peter Obi, Ekwueme out of your dirty schemes’ | Igbo youths unhappy with media reports

The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) has warned politicians in the area to desist from dragging the names of Nnamdi Kanu, Alex Ekwueme and Peter Obi “into their dirty and imaginary dream world.’’ The group, in a statement released by its founder, Elliot Uko, described the attempt by some politicians to cause disagreement between the aforementioned... Read More

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Opinion: Why Nigerians must agree to disagree on the ‘Nigerian question’

By Ayodele Adio Just recently, former vice president Atiku Abubakar made bold proclamations on restructuring the Nigeria’s socio-political land scape. This time he wasn’t a lone wolf, other prominent Nigerians like Balarabe Musa and Dr Junaid Mohammed, just to mention but a few all seconded this fine line of thought. Let’s be frank, there is not... Read More

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Reuben Abati: Tomato scarcity as metaphor

One of the major news items in circulation has been the scarcity of tomato. Incidentally, Nigeria is (was) the 14th largest producer of tomato in the world and the second largest producer in Africa, after Egypt, but our country hardly produces enough to meet the local demand of about 2.3 million tonnes, and lacks the... Read More

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Opinion: Nigeria, a house divided within itself

We may not have been together if not for the 1914 amalgamation. But since the artificial wedding took place over a century ago, it is quite surprising how and why we remain divided in the face of various integration plans and programs to keep us united. Few weeks ago when the Ese Oruru saga broke... Read More

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September 6, 2015

Northern group uses Jonathan’s bias for the South to justify Buhari’s appointments

Goodluck Jonathan had a bias towards the South-South and South-East, in his political appointments, says a northern group. A group of ‘Concerned Elders of the North’, in an attempt to justify the perceived imbalance in the appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari, has released a list of some appointments made by the administration of Goodluck Jonathan.... Read More

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“Jonathan betrayed our agreement” | PDP reveals why the North voted GEJ out

According to the Peoples Democratic Party, former President Goodluck Jonathan betrayed an agreement with the party to allow a northerner run for office in the 2015 Presidential election. The PDP said there was an existing power shift pact which Jonathan broke, and consequently led to the party’s loss at the last general election. PDP National Vice Chairman,... Read More

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September 30, 2014

Femi Aribisala: The North can never be more populated than the South

by Femi Aribisala In 2011, more votes were cast in Zamfara than the total number of legitimately-registered voters, according to the revelation of INEC’s clean-up exercise. Everything turns upside down in Nigeria. Logic becomes illogical. Wisdom becomes foolishness. Two plus two becomes seven. Hospitals become mortuaries. Stealing is not corruption. Education is a sin. In... Read More

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September 11, 2014

9ice means business: Singer goes campaigning in Ogbomosho

by Kolapo Olapoju 9ice has officially commenced campaigning, in his bid to get elected into the lower chamber of the National Assembly at the 2015 elections. The ‘Gongo Aso’ singer is aiming to represent Ogbomoso North/South/Orire Constituency at the Federal House of representative, and he is contesting under the major opposition party, the All Progressive... Read More

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August 24, 2014

Opinion: The Northerners’ nonsense must stop!

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Nigeria has a highly complex and colourful social mosaic. The cultural diversity and heterogeneity makes this mosaic chaotic. The diverse culture and custom of Nigeria cannot be compared with the melting pot of the American society or with the multinational state exemplified by the now defunct Soviet Union. The foundations of federalism... Read More

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Opinion: It is time to break Nigeria up

by Damola Awoyokun We want a good-bye-to-all-that referendum now. And the National Conference sitting in Abuja should make itself useful by setting a date for one. Enough is enough. Sardauna of Sokoto and Obafemi Awolowo used to be good friends. They visited each other a lot and Sardauna was very keen to implement... Read More

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Opinion: Our nation’s elusive unity

by Enenim Ubon Right from the amalgamation, it was clear that the Northern and Southern protectorates have nothing in common and would have been better off as separate entities “One nation bound in freedom,peace and unity.”,the words of the last line of the first stanza of our national anthem; sadly I do no think ours... Read More

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Tunde Leye: Reporting Nigeria – What is good for the goose (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye Why then does the media find it so convenient to report events about Nigeria in prisms and narratives of Muslim North against Christian South, or Oil Rich Niger Delta or Hausa-Fulani North? Borno, at the epicenter of Boko Haram’s assault has a 25% to 30% Christian population. The Event On Sunday, June... Read More

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Ogaga Ifowodo: The Northern victory in the derivation contest

by Ogaga Ifowodo The “North,” it must be remembered, was dragged into Nigeria screaming and kicking. Its disdain for Nigeria has been evident right from when Sir Ahmadu Bello would not deign to come down south to Lagos, the capital of the newly independent nation. It was yet another brazen act of political arrogance writ... Read More

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Rudolf Okonkwo: Nigeria after Boko Haram

by Rudolf Okonkwo The North will never be the same after Boko Haram. The people of the North will have to make hard choices. Will they hold their leaders accountable or still allow them to educate their families and leave the rest behind? There will still be a Nigeria after Boko Haram; it just won’t... Read More

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Cheta Nwanze: A history lesson – Nigeria’s first coup

by Cheta Nwanze To understand first, the coup of January 15, 1966, we must not take it in isolation, something that a lot of people tend to do. We must first understand the world around the coup, Nigeria around the coup, and learn the important fact that idealism is bad Because of the extremely sensitive... Read More

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February 9, 2014

Simon Kolawole: Wars and rumours of war

by Simon Kolawole To the Junaids, my advice is if you don’t want Jonathan, vote against him. No Northerner should be intimidated about whom they choose to support. A Northern governor said recently that he had the list of 400 Northern leaders who are working against “Northern interest”, a euphemism for “supporting Jonathan”. This is... Read More

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December 27, 2013

Opinion: What those calling for Nigeria’s break-up need to learn from South Sudan

by Raheem Oluwafunminiyi However, despite these seeming problems, this writer believes secession or threats of disintegration are not the decisive solution we need both as a people and country. The event in South Sudan and elsewhere should serve as a lesson for those who think dividing Nigeria on either religious or ethnic lines would solve... Read More

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December 16, 2013

South Sudan ‘quashes coup attempt’

by Akintomiwa Agbaje An attempted coup d’etat by soldiers to overthrow the goverment of Sudan has been put down. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir told reporters in the capital that the government was in full control and announced a night time curfew which resulted from the heavy battle between rival factions of the presidential guard overnight in... Read More

November 20, 2013

He killed it! This is EASILY the best dressed chap at Peter & Lola Okoye’s wedding (LOOK)

by Akan Ido Cameron Okoye, Peter ‘Psquare’ Okoye’s son came out looking handsome as usual for his parents’ traditional wedding which took place over the weekend in Lagos. Cameron wore a South Eastern native attire just like daddy with coral beads and a black cap to complete the chiefly look. Proud daddy, Peter posted the... Read More

October 15, 2013

Opinion: Prognosis – After the fall of Nigeria

by Fredrick Nwabufor After the country falls, the same problems in entombed Nigeria persist in the emergent nations because new people with pristine consciousness did not emerge, just new countries emerged. It is 2014, and a constellation of Nigerians selectively drawn from variegated social, cultural, political and economic strata converges in a national concourse to... Read More

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October 6, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Our Constitution is not the problem

by Simon Kolawole But I will soon show that this is not a minor issue. It will determine the pattern of voting and the overall outcome. Three, how will delegates emerge? By election or selection? If by election, I am afraid the same people who know how to win elections will emerge as delegates to... Read More

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