Nigeria: The Monday Discourse - a President Under Fire

16 December 2013
analysis

As the nation edges closer to the 2015 elections, President Goodluck Jonathan has a difficult task leading his Peoples Democratic Party to victory.

In January 1, 1964, the late Tai Solarin, one of Nigeria's foremost social activists, wrote an essay in the Daily Times newspaper, titled, 'May Your Road Be Rough'. It was a saying that could be mistaken for a curse in a religiously obsessed Nigeria, but ironically, the title of the essay has become widely accepted and greatly quoted.

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