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WHEN President Muhammadu Buhari started crowding his government with his kinsmen, townsmen, clansmen and people of his ethnic, sectional and religious backgrounds, I was shocked that many otherwise respected opinion leaders did not see what was wrong with it. I recall that Professor Pat Okechukwu Utomi responded to our loudly-expressed outrage saying that it did not matter if Buhari composed his entire government with people from one village! Those were the days when the Daura military politician’s arrival on the stage was like the second coming of Jesus Christ to naïve Nigerians. I have long discovered that naiveté is an attribute of character, not necessarily lack of knowledge. A naïve person may have all the degrees in the world; he might move mountains with his power of oratory and project raw charisma. But if he does not understand the contexts, the mindsets and the peculiarities of the people and situations he is involved in, he will be effortlessly routed by less-fancied morta...

Nigeria, despite her God-given natural resources cannot boost of producing any tangible products that are been exported. We tends to consume more than we produce, thus it makes us Lazy and not motivated to be productive. Though activities to increase the productive content of the economy rather than depend solely on the exportation of raw materials, was recognized during the early sixties. But thereafter, Nigeria's productive capacity began to decline which got deeper into the millennium and today. Nigeria past and present leaders have explanation to offer about the declining nature of productivity in our country. They have failed to empower its citizens, precisely the youths in all ramifications to be self productive. Instead they have resorted to using our youths as political thugs and stooges in achieving their political ambition. It is truism to to say that in Nigeria, the only time our leaders embark on a programme of empowering the citizens through skill acquisition is whe...

The early part of June 2017 saw Arewa youths issue a "Quit Notice" to the Igbos living in Northern Nigeria. This followed the 50-year anniversary of the Biafran war where both friends and foes of Biafra took turns to tell their stories with objective emphasis on the Igbo's. The Igbo people need no introduction, though their population is unknown, the Igbo's are everywhere. Definitely well known are their ingenuity, resilience and of course, over flowing technological and scientific acumen. These attributes are more than enough to enable the Igbos to enjoy steady Political power and development in Nigeria. But unfortunately, that has not been the case Much of the blame at the anniversary was heaped on the loss of the Biafran war. Yes the Igbos have endured all sort of discrimination because of the war. The tragedy, regrettably is that there is no tangible development in the East besides primitive accumulation of wealth by the individual politicians themselves Just a...