Together For Nigeria

In less than 24 hours, Nigeria will be celebrating its 49th anniversary as an independent nation: as usual with the celebrations, there will be speeches, prayer sessions, various formalities, parade and pomp will inundate the nation’s landscape. 2010 is 3 months away when you may expect talks of Nigeria at 50, the golden anniversary that is bound to come up in October regardless of the state of the nation. I can recall two years ago, Ghanaians trooped out in hundreds of thousands to celebrate the golden jubilee of their nationhood because they had every reason to rejoice. The leadership there is only building on a foundation laid by the founding fathers like Kwame Nkurumah. They have their problems, but they know they are on course. I read recently that the head of the Ghanaian electoral body will be coming over with a special envoy to Abuja to show our leaders how they midwifed two successive and internationally acclaimed civilian-to-civilian power transition programmes. Barack Obama ...

In order to build and create a Nigeria that the people can believe in, there is an urgent need for a new constitution by all the peoples of Nigeria. This is the way forward for us all to begin the process of nation building. The present Nigerian constitution is a centralist document packaged by the military and special interests and handed over to the people. This centralist document makes a mockery of democracy, federalism and the presidential system of governance. This unitary system of government by special interests in Nigeria has contributed in no small measure to the discontent, unrest, and armed insurgence that continue to retard development and quality of life within the Nigerian nation space. My people, if we want a better Nigeria we need to create it and make it happen rather than watch things happen. We should not be tied to our past but our potentials and capacity to bring about change.It is time to recapture that sense of a common purpose: we are all Nigerians and have no ...

The federal government is creating a wasted generation of nigerians by allowing the shutdown of all institutions of higher learning for almost 4 months in this 21st century.What hope is left for Nigeria.