The renewed secessionist agitation championed by Nnamdi Kanu has triggered a chain motion of cleavage-based identification. Whether it’s the usual bandwagon attitude of Nigerians to emulate the good, bad and ugly trend or the real deal of our expanding fault lines is what time will certainly unravel. Suitability, homogeneity, compatibility of segments calling for regional recognition is another factor to contend with. Interestingly, the next alternative to secessionist call is to revert to the 1963 constitution, as agitations for resource control guarantees power to component states if true federalism is practiced. In the dust of the renewed Biafra agitation and…

Last Thursday, I finally got my copies of My Dialogue With Nigeria, the compilation of articles, interviews and reminiscences of Lt. General Ipoola Alani Akinrinade who retired from the Nigerian Army at 42. My friend, Kole Omololu, the organising secretary of Afenifere, had purchased two copies for me during the public presentation of the book in Lagos many weeks ago. The book editor is Soji Akinrinade, who was our General Editor in the newsroom of the old Newswatch. He was later elevated to the position of Executive Director and then Editor-in-Chief. He has done us a great favour by getting…

In the context of Nigerian political history, the word re-structuring, which is now very current, should be quite simple, straight forward and without complications, yet some people seem to have difficulties with it. In substance, it simply calls for our going back to the "agreed Nigeria", that is, going back to the structure or political arrangements of Nigeria, as agreed by the founding fathers - our heroes past! That 'agreed Nigeria' was a federal structure, with regions as federating units. Initially there were three regions: Eastern, Western and Northern regions. Midwestern region was created later, making four regions: three in…

Look at them, look at the people who are stealing your future and the future of your children and grandchildren. Look at them again. Do you recognize them? Look at their fat necks, the necks that you will mistake for Mahogany trunk. People with fat thick necks, people who have been chewing on our currency and have made paupers of the rest of us. Don’t you know them? Don’t you recognize them? They are all over the place. I am talking of the privileged few, the men and women who have stood between us and the actualization of our Confederation.…