Ordinarily, remote observers could have mistaken the Save Nigeria Group’s rally held at Onikan stadium, Lagos last Wednesday for one of the political rallies designed by ambitious politicians towards 2011 elections.
The Action Congress on Sunday described the Peoples Democratic Party as a perpetual source of “deep embarrassment” to Nigeria and called on Nigerians to vote out the party from office in 2011.
As at December 1968, the Nigerian Civil War was still raging. In January 1969, I came to London as a member of the Nigerian Government delegation to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Meeting. At the time, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was resident somewhere in London.
Before the present disorders, before there was a trend to corporate existence for Nigeria , I, like a lot of people, did not see myself really as a Nigerian, I thought in more global terms: I saw myself as an African, who also was a Nigerian, but it really was an irrelevant fact. It was only the moment of crisis, when this home I was in was stricken, that I really did articulate it to myself. I realized that this was my home. On rational grounds, I have been, however marginally, a participant...
Pa Ayo Adebanjo, a prominent lawyer and chieftain of the pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, is a reporter's delight, any day. He pulls no... punches over any issue and says things as he sees them, no matter whose ox is gored. In this interview with BIMBO OGUNNAIKE, Chief Adebanjo spoke extensively on the controversial statement credited to Dr. Mathew Mbu that the National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), and not the Action Group, won the election into the Western House of...
WEEKS of speculations, anxiety, lobbying, name-dropping and subterfuge ended yesterday as the National Council of State, the nation’s highest advisory body, which met for about six hours at the Presidential Villa, Abuja approved the nomination of the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Prof. Attahiru Jega, as the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). His choice drew immediate nationwide applause.
