Elite conspiracy against Nigerians, By Lekan Sote

Practically everyone that holds any political power in Nigeria as president, governor, local government chairman, legislator, minister, state commissioner, councillor, board member of any parastatal or government-owned enterprise, or political party official, is in a conspiracy against citizens of Nigeria. Elite consensus in Nigeria is actually an elite conspiracy against the interest of the poor […]

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In the jungle called Lagos, By Lekan Sote

Lagos is not just the place of the “indecency, lies and immoral acts of a typically rustic, countryside lady who went to Lagos and became sophisticated” as chronicled in Niyi Oniororo’s novel, Lagos Is A Wicked Place, the stuff of Onitsha Market Literature that Chinua Achebe described as “chronicles of social problems of a somewhat mixed-up, but […]

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Southern public servants fear northerners, By Lekan Sote

Simon Kolawole, publisher of The Cable online newspaper, wrote, “I hate to imagine what… public office holders who end up as ethnic champions must have quietly done against other regions (of Nigeria) while in (sensitive and powerful federal public) service (positions).” Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, now Director of Publicity of Northern Elders’ Forum, worked in the Office of […]

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This constitution review can’t ‘werk’, By Lekan Sote

The constitution review process, enabled by Section 9(3) of Nigeria’s Constitution which says “An Act… for the purpose of altering the provisions of… Section (9), Section 8 (on boundary adjustment and creating new States and Local Governments) or Chapter IV (on Fundamental Human Rights) shall not be passed” except by four-fifth of the National Assembly […]

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Time to act is now, By Lekan Sote

The arrogant Southern Nigerians, especially of the Yoruba stock, nearly got their derriere exposed when the (disingenuous) ill-wind, blown by Northern Nigeria traders, nearly blockaded transport of foodstuffs and cattle down South. For the South to truly say, Never Again, to the Northern affront, provocation, blackmail and vice grip to their gastronomic jugular, they and […]

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