Restructuring the Federal Union (2)

State Constitution As our national experience has shown, centralization kills initiative, suffocates and reduces states to entities that merely collect allocations from the centre to pay salaries and spend the rest in buying jeeps and misappropriate some. These have been possible because of the national...

Restructuring the Federal Union

Last week, we noted how the leadership question is always at the centre of our nation’s political problem. For example, succession crisis was the catalyst of events that led to the Civil War. Doubtlessly, Boko Haram emerged from the fact that a non Moslem Northerner...

National Assembly and the Pension Fund Graft

By Ekeng Anam Ndu There is hardly any week that passes without front-page news of stealing of public funds reported in the dailies. The frequency of the crime as reported signifies the pervasiveness of stealing in the public service and the total failure of anti-graft...

Will Nigeria break up in 2015? (1)

  By Ekeng Anam Ndu Comments on Nigeria’s continued existence as one country have attracted media attention in recent weeks following federal government’s high profile campaign for the celebration of the centenary. The disintegration thesis first surfaced in June 2005 when US Intelligent Report on...

Of manipulations, self interest and national disaster

By Ekeng Anam Ndu I am glad to be back in this Column to continue with the seemingly endless wailings for an unfinished history called Nigeria. Sounds pessimistic, yes, encouraged by daily happenings at all levels, all showing a common trend: deterioration or decay of socio-economic...