THE latest rules for the gradual ease of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown simply show that Nigeria, like most countries around the world, has reached the stage where irrespective of our inability to arrest the rate…
Who is Afraid of the Middle Belt?
By Obadiah Mailafia Last week a bill was presented to the House of Representatives, entitled “Geopolitical Zones of the Federation Bill 2020”. It was sponsored by Kpam Sokpo (PDP, Benue). It aims essentially to enshrine…
Harold Smith, the big lie, and Nigeria 2019
Harold Smith was an Englishman who was born in Manchester in 1927. He was educated at Oxford. He joined the Colonial Service in 1954. He was deployed to Nigeria in 1955 and lived in Lagos,…
COVID-19 AND NIGERIA SECURITY ISSUES: THE WAY FORWARD
Lecture By H.E. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo At the 2020 Sobo Sowemimo Annual Lecture Abeokuta Club, Friday, June 26, 2020 When the President of Abeokuta Club invited me through a letter by the General Secretary of…
Beyond INEC’s hammer on parties
A constitution amendment that culminated in a legal pronouncement might yet instil orderliness into Nigeria’s chaotic electoral system. Specifically, the Independent National Electoral Commission had been lamenting the proliferation of political parties contesting elections after…
BLACK LIVES WILL NOT MATTER 2
For the Black race to extricate itself from the clutches and knee of the white race, it would need to show exemplary and remarkable strides in socio-economic development. The World today respects only the developed…
Commemorating ‘June 12’ without telling its true story…
by Olu Fasan In June 2018, President Buhari declared that “Democracy Day” would no longer be May 29, but June 12. This was to immortalise June 12, 1993 when the freest presidential election in Nigeria’s…
BLACK LIVES WILL NOT MATTER 1
“To know the present we must look into the past and to know the future we must look into the past and the present.” Walter Rodney The quotation "all men are created equal" is part…
Eight minutes and forty-six seconds – a tribute…
By DR. Femi Olugbile [caption id="attachment_239" align="alignnone" width="272"] Dr Femi Olugbile[/caption] They had come from different parts of the USA to pay their respects to a man who was now a metaphor for the condition…
THE LOAN AND THE NASS BUILDING RENOVATION GRANT:…
The Voice of Reason (VOR) has observed with dismay the recent, ultra-smooth approval by the legislature of a request by the President for authority to commit Nigeria yet again to various multilateral loans totalling a…