Buhari’s Death And The Political Economy Of Memory

 By John Onyeukwu

With President Muhammadu Buhari’s death, Nigeria entered a familiar season of national confusion, not about the event, but about how to feel about it. Some Nigerians invoked religion: “Only God can judge.” Others cited culture: “Don’t speak ill of the dead.” Yet a third group, often younger and historically alert, asked: “Why should death erase the need for truth?” 

*Buhari 

This division is not just emotional; it is structural. It is a mirror of the political economy of memory, how societies remember, what they choose to forget, and who controls the narrative. In the days following Buhari’s death, one thing became painfully clear: we are a country uncomfortable with honest remembrance. 

Nigeria Is On The Precipice, Dangerously Reaching A Tipping Point – Obasanjo

*Gen Obasanjo and President Buhari 

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Dear President and General Buhari,

Open Letter To President, General Muhammadu Buhari

I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria.

Since the issue is of momentous concern to all well-meaning and all right-thinking Nigerians, it must be of great concern to you, and collective thinking and dialoguing is the best way of finding an appropriate and adequate solution to the problem.

Fulani Herdsmen Have Declared A War On Nigeria – Eastern Mandate Union (EMU)

Communiqué Issued By The Eastern Mandate Union (EMU) On The Level Of Insecurity And Menace Of Fulani Herdsmen In Nigeria

 

*Dr. Arthur Nwankwo,
Chancellor, Eastern Mandate Union   

*Background to the Communiqué:
Following the recent carnage by Fulani herdsmen in Plateau State in which over 200 persons were slaughtered in cold blood; and growing level of insecurity in the country, the Eastern Mandate Union convoked an emergency meeting last Monday, July 2, 2018, to review the state of the country and the ethnic cleansing and jihad that is currently sweeping across the Middle Belt region of the country.

We have on several occasions pointed out that Nigeria is an aberration created by a colonial fiat to feed its insatiable economic appetite. Regrettably, since political independence, Nigeria has failed to weave a nation out of the welter of ethnicities that make up Nigeria to the extent that today Nigeria has become emblematic of a failed state capacious only in the wastage of human life. Today in Nigeria, human life has been subordinated to the life of a cow.