The Dimka's Coup Attempt of February 13, 1976
By Nowa OmoiguiJust before 8:30 a.m. on February 13, 1976, the following curious announcement was heard on Radio Nigeria:"Good morning fellow Nigerians,This is Lt. C...
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Just before 8:30 a.m. on February 13, 1976, the following curious announcement was heard on Radio Nigeria:"Good morning fellow Nigerians,This is Lt. C...
Read moreculled from the GUARDIAN, February 21, 2005A basic responsibility of all governments is the maintenance of peace and order. This duty has been conside...
Read moreculled from VANGUARD, January 26, 2005THE world may not know it, but the ongoing democratic experiment in Nigeria is failing again, just as the earlie...
Read moreculled from GUARDIAN, October 1, 2006Time and again, observers of Nigerian politics have predicted - so far incorrectly - the nation's ineluctable dem...
Read moreINTRODUCTIONOn February 24, 2003 I delivered a lecture on democratic transition in Africa from the point view of Nigeria under the auspices of the Dr....
Read moreculled from GUARDIAN, April 22 2004WE start with the front-page report in The Guardian of Thursday April 1, 2004, titled "Military authorities move Al...
Read moreThe second phase of the current democratic experience had gone half circle with May, 29 being its symbolic expressions. The date marked the init...
Read moreculled from VANGUARD, April 1, 2004Our style of leadership almost qualifies Nigeria as a failed state.DEMOCRATIC Nigeria today is in a state where thr...
Read moreBeing the text of a speech given on March 24, 2000 at a Conferenceentitled "Preventing the Breakdown of Democracy in Nigeria: Strategies fora Living C...
Read moreWhat Nigeria needs badly is a purposeful political reorganization to bring into play our unity in diversity. We need to restore power to the people ef...
Read moreINTRODUCTION In the wake of the tragedy of the death of over 100 passengers (including over 60 innocent children) in the Sosoliso plane crash in ...
Read moreI feel so excited by Dare Babarinsa’s Grammar of Murderers published in the Tell magazine, of November 1, 2004, that it occurred to me to write this...
Read moreculled from GUARDIAN, March 19, 2005Not to long ago, right inside Aso Rock, it appeared as if nemesis was on a revenge mission. The target of course w...
Read moreculled from THISDAY, April 25, 2006With last Friday’s final tranche payment of $4.5 billion to the Paris Club, Nigeria has become the first African ...
Read moreculled from THISDAY, July 3, 2005The new President of the World Bank, Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, while praising the historic agreement by Group of Eight fina...
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From the Powell Memo to Project 2025: How a 1971 Corporate Strategy Became a Global Template for Power In August 1971, a corporate lawyer named L...
The Market’s Mood Ring: How Volatility Across Assets Traces a Hidden Geometry of SentimentIf you want a fast, honest way to describe modern markets,...
Nigeria’s grid collapses are not ‘bad luck’ – They are a design failure, and we know how to fix themFirst published in VANGUARD on February 3,...
Islands of Credibility: Nigeria’s Best Reform Strategy Starts in the StatesFirst published in VANGUARD on January 31, 2026 https://www.vanguard...
Project 2025 Agenda and Healthcare in NigeriaThe US and Nigeria signed a five-year $5.1B Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on December 19, 2025, to bo...
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