First, a caveat: I am not in the business of endorsing or demarketing any presidential candidate. But what Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP flagbearer, said in Kaduna last weekend generated
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In Nigeria’s politics, the north holds the trump card – an inconvenient reality. By the inexorable contrivance of the divine, the northern region is a chief decider of the nation’s
The fear of ethnic domination is as old as Nigeria. Mutual recriminations and suspicion have been the scourge of Nigeria’s cohesive development. The south-east says it is the north, and
Those plunking for secession and advancing hate for the north may not know that the region was once a convenient political ally of the south-east. The political establishment of the
We need new alliances – political, social, and humanitarian concordat. But we must start from a foreground of truth to
Perhaps on top of the challenges the north currently faces in retaining its hold on the power stakes in Nigerian
Hurray! Nigeria is 60 years old! Fireworks! On this day, in 1960, Nigeria was conceived as it officially gained independence
We often tell ourselves a lot of beautiful lies in Nigeria. One of my favourite is the saying: “This is
BY AINOKO ISRAEL AYE-EBENE & DAUDA GARUBA In 1954, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sokoto became the first (and only) Premier
There is something about first-class graduates that President Muhammadu Buhari finds irresistible. But maybe it isn’t just Buhari. It is