The problem of the north is not Islam. Too often commentators struggling with ignorance sacrifice analytical integrity on the altars of their prejudices and slander a whole religion and its adherents. The notion of an Islamic north and a Christian south hermetically sealed off from each other is a fallacy
Every time we suffer any of these self-immolations, it diminishes our collective humanity; contributes to the fragmentation of the state; helps to deepen and widen primordial suspicions; and also helps to flame mutual hatred.
Only last week, I was taking my morning doze of facebook tablets before the day’s main work, I could not help notice a post on a friend’s wall of John Pepper Clark’s The Casualties. The poem written in the 60′s was one of those poems we had to learn off heart and recite in literature [...]
A day may well come, when the only way to conduct an election in this country would be to send every uniformed military and para-military official to the streets and the polling booths. That will be most unfortunate, and to prevent that from happening, Nigeria must get it right on April 26.
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, is leading a campaign to re-examine the mandatory 1-year service programme for university graduates
It is doubtful if the President has the political spine to bring the murders to book. I suspect the killing of Obi and that of many others in this latest orgy of violence will be swept under the carpet by the Government for the sake of political expediency or “national unity”
Change and progress of course come with imperfections. However, only a society that recognises this inevitability and is not distracted by these imperfections, can embrace change when it comes and steer it in the right direction
Leadership failure is precisely what is responsible for the crisis that the country is now witnessing after a presidential election and one man on whom history beckons to play the role of statesman and sportsman, is General Muhammadu Buhari
With proper organization, the CPC may have been able to harness the rage coursing through northern slums to build a constructive opposition to the status quo. Instead, the party will now be terminally defined by the scenes of its supporters burning, killing and maiming,
From the results, it can be assured that people did not vote on personality or they scarcely combined personality and party. On a serious note, Nigerian politics is still far from an advanced democracy. But we shall be there one day
