Had Gowon demonstrated seriousness, discipline, and statesmanship in 1967, there might have been no war. Had he demonstrated intellectual seriousness in 1989, there might have been...
The ex-South-East spokesman for President Bola Tinubu says Gowon’s civil war narrative misrepresents historical facts.
No amount of autobiography-writing can alter these facts. Gowon may find comfort in the pulpits of his prayer meetings. He may surround himself with sycophants who...
Acknowledging Ahmadu Bello as a federalist, Offodile states unequivocally: 'I believe that Nigeria is redeemable if we fight for it's liberation from the clutches of agents...
To be fair, there have been efforts. The postwar policy of reintegrating ex-combatants, the spreading of federal institutions, the rituals of national youth service, the presence...
While Nzeogwu and his fellow coupists identified three elephants in the room of Nigeria in 1966, those elephants have not disappeared, 60 years after. The ethnic suspicions...
The attention of our national discourse must shift from debates about individual actors to the systemic issues that produce them. Until we constructively address those issues,...
I don’t want to watch a victory parade for Kanu on the soil of Nigeria. They can do that in their Biafra. They can go to...
Let the man go home. Let him see the sky beyond the narrow window of confinement. Let the South-East exhale once more. In releasing Kanu, Nigeria...
There were other negotiations. There was Arusha and there was Kampala. Biafra had no legitimacy and wherewithal to enforce their one-sided accord. The rest is history....