In Brotherhood or in strife?

In Brotherhood or in strife?

Nigeria, we hail thee, our own dear native land
Though tribes and tongues may differ, in brotherhood we stand? 
We stand in brotherhood or in strife and conflict?
Are we united in peace and progress or disunited in crises and dysfunction?
Are we building free and equal citizens or a hierarchy of hegemons and the conquered?
Lords and serfs?
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Advantage Atiku Abubakar!

Advantage Atiku Abubakar!

Ironically as late as it comes, 2023 may turn out to be Atiku Abubakar’s best chance at securing Nigeria’s presidency.

I am not at all surprised that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primaries last Saturday May 28, 2022. It was always the most probable outcome.
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Nigeria’s history of programmed crises

Nigeria’s history of programmed crises

Till date Nigeria continues to reflect Britain’s sub-optimal vision for Nigeria.

When as a postgraduate student of law at the University of Lagos in the late 1980s I had to select four subjects for my LLM classes, I chose Secured Credit Transactions, Comparative Company Law and International Economic Law.

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South-West in disarray

South-West in disarray

What is wrong with us? Even if it is a curse, can’t we awake from our bewitchment and deliver ourselves from captivity?

For us in what I prefer to refer to as Western Nigeria, but which is now colloquially spoken of as “South-West” Nigeria in the context of the so-called “six geo-political zones,” it seems that our case is now appearing to be like that of the biblical Job – “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me” (Job 3: 25 KJV).

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