A conference on twenty years of democracy in Nigeria will take place in Abuja on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. The venue is Shehu Musa Yar’Adua International Conference Centre, Abuja. The theme of the conference is Democracy and the Rule of law. The objective is to bring people together to do an assessment of how the…
Nigeria After Buhari By Ben Lawrence
President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election is a challenge for him to immortalise himself in this home stretch of his active political life. He must draw from the same pool as Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, Aminu Kano, Yakubu Gowon, Samuel Ogbemudia, Michael Okpara, Lateef Jakande, Tony Enahoro, Emeka Ojukwu and a few others who considered…
Celebrating Villains, Despising Heroes
Comets no longer announce the passing of princes in Nigeria. They are quietly interred unsung. Pacesetters are treated with disdain by those they preceded to lay respectable foundation for in the professions. But villains, cheats and thieves are sung to high heavens when they exit to hell. How can one explain why the country has…
EBOLA: Nigeria’s Triumph in Collectivism
Hurrah! At last there is something to celebrate in Nigeria. We are Ebola free for now. It proves our varying but progressive ingenuity under a collective ideal. Some fellow exported Ebola to Nigeria and we stopped him at our border before he could diffuse it to unmanageable dimension, thanks to Ameyor Adadevoh, the heroine of…
