By Idowu Ohioze
Recent occurrences, many of which many
Nigerians would identify with, have led me to reach an arguably inevitable
conclusion: Nigeria
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| *President Buhari |
You may or may not share my rather pessimistic opinion depending on your ethnic or political affiliation or religious persuasion since most Nigerians are easily given to assessing public policies and socio-political trends on destructively bias yardsticks namely –and in order of subjective preference - the ethnicity, religious or political origins of the principal protagonists.
My conclusion is the outcome of a deductive reasoning that is based on an analysis of the essentials that impede national progress or are known to have orchestrated the demise of known ancient empires and nation-states.
In the following short essays on a range of issues, I make,
hopefully, a string of compelling arguments to support my hypothesis of a
disappearing political construct.
The genie is out of the
bottle. We just have to figure out how the demise of Nigeria
A Killing Field?
If you consider that the emergence of Boko Haram insurgency was
sadly the failure of government at each level in Nigeria ,
you certainly should be alarmed that cattle rearers are wrecking havoc in parts
of Nigeria
Confrontations between landowners and heavily armed nomadic cattle
rearers have resulted in numerous deaths in Benue, Enugu
and other parts of Nigeria
Rumour of the presence, at the National Assembly, of a draft grazing
bill with equally rumoured provisions for statutorily delineated grazing lands
within states, has so far been denied by some legislators but the question of
Nigerians’ age-long vulnerability within its borders has been brought to the
forefront of the debate by the wanton destruction of lives and properties by
individuals who are, disturbingly, above the law.
Some state governors have vowed to resist cattle rearers within
their territories. In fact, in the south-east, a governor has hinted at
resuscitating and re-arming the dreaded Bakassi boys in defence of the citizens
of his state against terrorizing cattle herders. As it is commonly the level to
which such matters of dire consequences degenerate to in Nigeria
