Abdulrazaq Magaji

What some Nigerians prefer to call Sanusigate signposts how naïve, power drunken and desperate that Nigeria’s presidency has become.

One of the many problems that stared the corrective military government of the late General Murtala Ramat Muhammad in the face was the national head count which took place two years before the government came to power in July, 1975.

One of the unadvertised reasons for the removal of Mrs. Farida Waziri as head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was her reported ‘stubbornness’ in pressing for a special court, a tribunal of sort, to try corruption cases. Had Mrs.

Twenty years ago, exactly on June 12, 1993, Nigerians trooped out to vote in an election that has come to be adjudged as the best in the country.

June is here! The 12th day of the month is Democracy Day in the south west, a work-free day when pro-democracy activists, academics and political leaders join millions of Nigerians in the region to mark a significant day in the nation’s calendar. It has been the ritual since 1993.

Threat of two death sentences is ominously hanging over Nigeria ahead of the country’s centennial celebration. The first will be effected, according to its bearer, Mujahid Dokubo Asari, in the unlikely event that security agents swoop on him.

The much that has been said before and since Achebe’s passage confirms his ranking, despite the needless controversy generated by his last literary work, as a tree that made a forest; indeed, one man who gave the black race its much-needed voice aside placing his fatherland on the world stage.

For a leader best known for taking controversial decisions, Nigerians are right in commending their president, Goodluck Jonathan, for rising to the occasion to declare states of emergency in parts of the country.

For a leader best known for taking controversial decisions, Nigerians are right in commending their president, Goodluck Jonathan, for rising to the occasion to declare states of emergency in parts of the country.

Here we go again! The other time, it was our friend and information minister, Labaran Maku who dropped the bombshell.