Nigeria: The 2012 January Uprising and Its Significance for Transformation

11 January 2014
opinion

Let me begin by apologising that I might be a little dense in this write up; but only because the issue at hand is equally dense and should not be trivialised!

In this year of the centenary of the 1914 amalgamation; in this year of a politicised and potentially very disruptive, rather than constructive National Dialogue process; on the eve of the 2015 general elections; in the vortex of the test runs of the Ekiti and Osun elections; and in the dark shadows of the rumblings within the treasury looting ruling elites; it is perhaps very important that we pause, and undertake a collective recollection of our January Uprising of 2012!

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