Showing posts with label Nigeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigeria. Show all posts

Wednesday, 23 October 2013

National conference of who and of what?

WE never knew ours isn’t the most unfortunate generation. I belong to a generation that was born in crisis, weaned in war and has never really known the real meaning of peace. Those who arrived here between 1960 and 1969 are appropriate children of war.

Monday, 30 September 2013

Prince is 53 tomorrow

Fat Prince

Nigeria will be 53 as an independent nation tomorrow. In three months time, it will be 100 years old. Those who welded the nation together on January 1, 1914 described the union as one between a “well-behaved” young man (North) and “a lady of means” (South). How well-behaved could a man be when all it hankers after in a relationship are the fortunes of the lady in his life? Should one