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Friday, November 22, 2019

November 16 As National Day For Zik

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
November 16, the birthday of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, ought to be a national holiday in Nigeria. It is deserving honour for the pivotal leader who led the charge for Nigeria’s independence on October 1, 1960.
*Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
As a result of his unparalleled efforts, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe would in the course of time become the only black Governor-General of Nigeria, the first President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the only Nigerian whose name appeared in a Constitution of Nigeria, the first Senate President, among many other sterling firsts.

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Ndigbo On Nigeria’s Restructuring

By Okechukwu Anarado
Perhaps, excepting the imprints of the unruly events that started happening and later snowballed into the Nigeria’s Civil War in the late 1960’s, the portraiture of Nigeria today as a drifting democracy in black Africa has not been more appropriate and worrisome.
*Nwodo

Though the times and details of the conflicts might vary, the commonalities in the settings derive largely from the wanton destruction of lives and property by felons who first appear faceless, but whose identification soon exposes the troubling ineptitude of the nation’s authorities to either apprehend them or stem the raging tides of waste of lives, property and values which the culprits willfully unleash on their hapless victims.