As another Democracy Day Approaches

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I recently fallowed the live coverage of the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected French President; I was amazed by the apparent effortlessness with which the whole ceremony was conducted. Both the officials and the ordinary people at the scene looked at ease as though it was a mere birthday party for a family member. And even though it began to rain in the course of the event, as a result of which even the new President got wet, still the orderly atmosphere at the scene was intact.

Geopolitical Dynamics in the 2015 Elections

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Even before the ordinary Nigerians begin to count the cost of their mistake of “electing” the majority of their current “leaders” including the President in 2011, for it might be too early, it is obvious that, political struggle for 2015 elections has already begun. And this by implication means that, the voluminous files of unfulfilled promises made by those “elected leaders” during the 2011 elections campaign have now been dumped in archives, as “more important issues” i.e. 2015 elections are now up.

The Price of Prejudice

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My last week’s article in this column entitled “North’s Readiness for a Division” (Daily Trust, Friday, April 27, 2012) has elicited many interesting comments and equally provoked many emotional reactions some of which even accused me of treason against the north, collecting “brown envelops” or simply being “among those sponsored columnists” as someone put it.

North’s Readiness for a Division

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The sustained call for convening sovereign national conference SNC, by a growing number of particularly southern Nigerian elites seems to have created a crack on the hitherto uncompromising opposition from their northern Nigerian counterparts. This is quite evident in the statement/warning issued by The Arewa Elders Forum which clearly maintains that “The North shall no longer shy away from any dialogue or conference to negotiate the future of a united Nigeria, or even a divided Nigeria if that is the wish of its various component parts.”