Last week, the group of eight most industrialized nations eliminated the debt of eighteen highly indebted countries of the world, owed to world financ...
Read moreIn the first installment titled "The Bakassi Story", we reviewed a very brief summary of the history of the dispute starting from the Treaty between E...
Read moreLagos - I Was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament in December 12, 1959. And I remained in P...
Read moreFROM KAMPALA TO LOME TO LONDON AND BACK TO NIGERIAIt is my expectation that General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) will publish his memoirs some day. When t...
Read moreDay Break, Tuesday July 29, 1975IN KAMPALA “Abinde mu ka jin soro, ya faru agida” By time zone, Kampala in Uganda is two hours ahead of ...
Read more“DOVERIAI NO PROVERIAI.”Military regimes are, as the saying goes, inherently unstable. It is for good reason, therefore, that the Russians h...
Read more“If you want to stop a coup, remove the cause.”Back in September 1974, Brigadier Murtala Mohammed had quipped that if Gowon wanted to prevent a co...
Read moreAnother important factor – in the view of some - was the replacement of then Brigadier (later Major General) Hassan Katsina as Chief of Staff (Army)...
Read moreCorruption As previously noted, although Gowon was not personally corrupt, some persons in his regime allegedly engaged in corrupt practices. &nb...
Read moreFrom: The Military Governor,Republic of Biafra Enugu,22nd August, 1967.My dear Victor,1. For some time now, you and I have been discussing the circums...
Read moreOn 1st of June 1966, he wrote a letter to the Head of State Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi as follows from the Federal Prisons Ikot Ekpene:From: Lt...
Read moreNote No. 57027th March, 1962 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations presents its complements to the Embassy of the Cameroun R...
Read moreculled from GUARDIAN, June 22, 2005In this piece I bring together three episodes relating to June 12 and its aftermath to make a general point about t...
Read moreBeing excerpts of a speech delivered by President Olusegun Obasanjo at the International Conference on Federalism in Brussels, Belgium, 3-5 March 2005...
Read moreThe profound question of how Nigerian civilians view their armed forces and whether they consider it a legitimate institution or merely "accept it" in...
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From the Powell Memo to Project 2025: How a 1971 Corporate Strategy Became a Global Template for Power In August 1971, a corporate lawyer named L...
The Market’s Mood Ring: How Volatility Across Assets Traces a Hidden Geometry of SentimentIf you want a fast, honest way to describe modern markets,...
Nigeria’s grid collapses are not ‘bad luck’ – They are a design failure, and we know how to fix themFirst published in VANGUARD on February 3,...
Islands of Credibility: Nigeria’s Best Reform Strategy Starts in the StatesFirst published in VANGUARD on January 31, 2026 https://www.vanguard...
Project 2025 Agenda and Healthcare in NigeriaThe US and Nigeria signed a five-year $5.1B Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 19, 2025, to bo...
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