Nigeria at 60

Recently, I began a messaging process on Facebook and WhatsApp with the primary objective of changing the way we think as Nigerians before we can make any meaningful progress and …

A FORMER Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega, has attributed Nigeria’s parlous condition sixty years after liberation from  the shackles of colonialism to bad leadership and …

By Dele Adesina THE Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has set up a 56 Member Constitution Reviewing Committee under the leadership of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie …

By Ignatius C. Olisemeka OUR founding fathers had difficulties negotiating the terms of our independence. The result was that sixty (60) years ago, we projected the image of a divided …

PRESIDENT of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the challenges faced by Nigerians are surmountable. Lawan made this known in reaction to Nigeria’s Diamond Jubilee celebration on October 1.  …

GROWING up in Nigeria has been an adventure, to say the least. It has been an array of events; myriad of experiences that have culminated in the idea of what …

Country not where it should be, says PANDEF THE apex Igbo body, Ohanaeze, in a statement by its acting Sec-retary General/Publicity secretary, Prince Uche Achi-Okpaga, said Nigeria has gone more …

By Ray Ekpu IT was Augustus Caesar, one of the greatest rulers of the Roman Empire who said, “I met Rome a mud but I left it a city of …

FORMER President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has urged Nigeri-ans not to lose hope in their nation, even as he charged them to be purposeful in playing their own role towards making …

CATHOLIC Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has acknowledged that every nation has its peculiar challenges, but said Nigeria’s problems could not be addressed by the kind of …