What Nigeria Lost By Abacha's Untimely Death Well-thought Out Provisions Of The 1995 Constitution

I was an elected member of the 1994-1995 National Constitutional Conference, which sat exactly for one year (June 26 1994 -June 26 1995) and had reaso...

Identity, Values and The Thesis Of Muslim Marginalisation In Nigeria:

For almost three months now what occupied the mind of some of Nigeria’s best brains, especially from Northern part of the country, at home and abroa...

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times:

The Limits of Executive Extortionism

It was Professor Wole Soyinka, the noble laureate, who coined these right words to describe President Olusegun Obasanjo’s excessiveness in Abeokuta,...

Behold, Goje State!

Common democratic practice the world over is to separate as much as possible public and private life. The state is not treated as if it were a persona...

Mariam Mukhtar And The End Of The All-Boys Club

This year concludes the first half-century of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and up till now it has been a men-only club. On Tuesday 10 May, the Senate...

Between The Citizen And The Indigene

culled from THISDAY, May 18, 2005In recent years, the seeming contradiction between the "indigene" and the  "settler" has played itself out in th...

Chris Ngige: The Hero of the Fourth Republic

Chief Chris Ngige, the Executive Governor of Anambra State in the fourth republic became popular through a political trial that is unprecedented in th...

Nigeria: We The People And Our Impediments

We must stop this constant adolescent fight to identify ourselves as the South, the North, the South-south, the Middle belt, the West, and/or any such...

The Nigerian Reform Agenda: What Options For Nigerians?

The National Political Reform Conference (NPRC) is winding down its committee deliberations, and would be reconvening from the 23rd of May for the fin...