Nigeria:   51 Years After Sir Ahmadu Bello

Daily Trust, 18 January 2014

January 15, 2014 marked the fifty-one years since the assassination of the one and only Sir Ahmadu Bello Sardauna along with other nationalists by the soldiers, who wanted to take… Read more »

Nigeria:   Remembering the Late Abubakar Mohammed Rimi

Daily Trust, 12 April 2014

On April 4, 2010, Nigeria lost one of its most colourful, charismatic, vibrant, progressive and broad-minded politicians, the late Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, the former… Read more »

Nigeria:   Bola Tinubu and the Common Man Colloquium

This Day, 27 April 2014

The sixth Bola Ahmed Tinubu Colloquium on the common man was profound and painfully clear that the elite have failed to transform their political kingdoms into paradises. The… Read more »

Nigeria:   Nigeria's Centenary - What Next?

Daily Trust, 10 May 2014

The original text of this series, which will be run for four weeks, was delivered as a Keynote at the 7th Annual Conference of the School of General Studies Kogi Polytechnic in… Read more »

Nigeria:   Maitama Sule - Always a Delight

Leadership, 16 July 2012

It's always a delight to sit with Alhaji Maitama Sule, Danmasanin Kano¸ First Republic and Second Republic minister. He was also Nigeria's very effective permanent… Read more »

Nigeria:   Obafemi Awolowo, Please Come Back Now, Nigeria Needs You

Premium Times, 11 January 2014

Chief Obafemi Awolowo never claimed to own Nigeria. He neither claimed to own Ikene, his place of birth nor the Yorubaland, his cherished native tribe. But going by his method of… Read more »

Nigeria:   Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe Stood Strongly Against Secession - Ekweremadu

Vanguard, 16 October 2012

The Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, on Monday called on anyone planning a secession to have a re-think, saying that it amounts to selfishness. Read more »

Nigeria:   Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa - - the Gentle Prime Minister

Leadership, 12 July 2013

Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, KBE (1) (December 1912 - January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician, and the only prime minister of an independent Nigeria. Originally a trained… Read more »

Nigeria:   100 Years Since the Birth of Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa

Daily Trust, 18 December 2012

Professor Okello Oculi, as usual, wrote an insightful article in the Daily Trust (7th Dec 2012) about portraits of leadership in Africa. Read more »

Nigeria:   Imperatives of a Sovereign National Confab

Vanguard, 4 October 2013

ON October 1, 1960, the British Union Jack, being the symbol of Her Imperial Majesty's domination of Nigeria and her peoples, was lowered at Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos. Read more »

Nigeria:   A Moment in History

Vanguard, 27 April 2013

The book 'Witness to History' authored by Alhaji Lai Mohammed of the ACN was launched amidst fun fare on Monday. Read more »

Nigeria:   Margaret Ekpo - Fierce Defender of Women's Rights

Leadership, 13 December 2013

Chief Margaret Ekpo was born on July 27, 1914, in an era when a very young Nigeria was under the rule of colonial masters. By the 1950s, when it was clear that Nigeria's… Read more »

Nigeria:   Aminu Kano - 30 Years After

Leadership, 17 April 2013

Mallam Aminu Kano, one of the founding fathers of Nigeria, died on April 17, 1983, just a few months before the August 1983 presidential election in which he was a candidate.… Read more »