Tag: Yakubu Gowon
“You cannot solve Nigeria’s problem in one day” | Gowon asks Nigerians to be patient with PMB
Former head of state Yakubu Gowon has urged Nigerians to be patient with the Buhari administration following recent criticisms. According ...
Simon Kolawole: ‘Petropathetic’ Syndrome – That’s what Nigeria has been suffering from
by Simon Kolawole Has anything changed today? Have we learnt any lessons? Have we changed our ways? I am sad ...
Opinion: Why is Obasanjo so different from the rest?
by John Akpaide Does our home-bred Double-O-Seven believe in anything outside his own Omnipotence: Could he possibly have mistaken the ...
.@MaxSiollun: Biafra – A lesson for the world in making peace?
by Max Siollun Nigerians are an opinionated and self-critical bunch. Dinner and beer parlour conversations among Nigerians almost inevitably turn ...
Rebuilding the nation: Lessons from other lands || This is the Babatunde Fashola speech everyone is talking about
by Babatunde Raji Fashola They say lightning does not strike in the same place twice. For the sake of ...
#InCaseYouMissedIt: Jonathan wants $1billion to tackle Boko Haram
by Kolapo Olapoju President Goodluck Jonathan says he needs at least $1 billion to fight the Islamic terrorist sect, Boko ...
Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls will be home soon – FG
by Kolapo Olapoju Eighty five days after their daring kidnap, the Council of State, made up of former Heads of ...
Jonathan is the most incompetent minority to rule Nigeria – APC
by Akan Ido The All Progressives Congress (APC) has told the PDP that President Goodluck Jonathan is not the first ...
Why Obasanjo is upset with Jonathan – Edwin Clark reveals in 10-page open letter
by Oke Efagene Elder statesman and former Minister of Information, Edwin Clark, has also joined the league of open letter ...
Alkasim Abdulkadir: After Maibasira, it’s time to have a real Youth Minister (Y! FrontPage)
by Alkasim Abdulkadir With the increasing unemployment and frustration in the country, young people who make up 70 percent of Nigeria’s ...
Femi Fani-Kayode: A word for those who call me a tribalist
by Femi Fani-Kayode When the Igbo, or anyone else, find a real champion that can cross swords with me and ...
Opinion: There is darkness looming over northern Nigeria
by Perry Brimah And with the lack of northern role models, the scarcity of northern activists and truthful historians, the ...
Debo Adejugbe: There will be a country – Achebe’s last prophecy (Y! Politico)
by Debo Adejugbe Corruption is now a staple in our homes. Tribalism -acknowledged or not- is now a seam in ...
Opinion: Ending the poverty of aspiration in Nigeria
by Omozuwa Gabriel Osamwonyi A society that cannot awaken the creative imagination of succeeding generations and create enabling environments for ...
‘NEPA’ strikes at church while President Jonathan gave an Easter message in Lagos
by Rachel Ogbu An Easter service at Our Saviour’s Church (Anglican Communion) in Lagos was interrupted following a power outage ...
“I was supposed to fly with Azazi, Yakowa” – Gowon (is there anybody who wasn’t?)
by Rachel Ogbu Former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon was supposed to be in the helicopter that crashed and ...
Tolu Ogunlesi: May things continue to fall apart in Nigeria (YNaija FrontPage)
They buy jets and fund projects from the sweat of the bottom-billion, who know that one day Jehovah Lojiji, the ...
Opinion: Biafra and the Up-NEPA generation
by Hounge We should learn to tolerate each other and stand firm as one, just like we did during Occupy ...
Igbos are their own enemies – Ayo Adebanjo
A close associate of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Ayo Adebanjo in his interview with ALLWELL OKPI, refutes the claims ...
Adewale Sogunro reviews Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’
by Adewale Sogunro I was hoping that he would look beyond the ethnic divisions, while rendering language to heal the ...
“Highly irresponsible”: Gowon lets off on Obasanjo over the latter’s criticism of Jonathan
by Isi Esene Weeks after verbally slamming the renowned writer, Chinua Achebe, over his account of events during the Nigerian ...
Ken Wiwa reviews Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’
by Ken Wiwa “…I had to be careful about the way I handled someone else’s words or opinions… Even when ...
Boko Haram ceasefire: Gowon urges Buhari to take mediator offer
by Isi Esene Several prominent Nigerians have called on former military president of the country, Muhammad Buhari, not to ignore ...
Simon Kolawole: Indeed, there was a starved country
Gowon and Awolowo could have done much more to help the dying and diseased civilians. And, clearly, Ojukwu fatally erred ...
Achebe’s book is propaganda, I did not starve Igbos to death – Gowon keeps talking
by Isi Esene Nigeria’s war-time military president, Yakubu Gowon, has been unequivocal in his reaction to the book titled, ‘There ...
Gowon on Achebe, “He is talking from a position of ignorance”
by Isi Esene Nigeria’s Civil War president, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd.), has hit renowned writer, Chinua Achebe, very hard over ...
Opinion: Prayer will not change Nigeria
by Emeka Oparah Meanwhile, some European countries, where less than 15% of the population recognise the existence of any gods ...
Firestorm: Yoruba leaders blast Achebe for “attacking” Awolowo
by Stanley Azuakola It was bound to happen. You don’t speak ill of one of the greatest Yorubas of all ...
“Rogues, armed robbers are in the assembly,” Obasanjo blasts legislature
by Stanley Azuakola When ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo is in the mood to talk, there is simply no stopping him. He ...
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- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy