Showing posts with label Restructuring Nigeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Restructuring Nigeria. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 June 2017

Restructuring Nigeria is a FARCE. I do't believe in it - Nnamdi Kanu declares as 7 Biafran groups merge and make him Supreme Leader of Biafran Nation

Restructuring Nigeria is a FARCE. I do't believe in it - Nnamdi Kanu
APGA will die after Anambra polls —IPOB 
Referendum only way out of Biafra agitation — Walid Jibrin 
Igbo in Kano, now indigenes —Ganduje 7 
Pro-Biafra groups fuse, make Kanu overall leader 

Seven pro-Biafra groups, yesterday, agreed to work together under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, with the aim of achieving faster, their quest for referendum that will lead to the formation of the Republic of Biafra. 

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Between Biafra and restructuring Nigeria [The way forward] - UN Expert

Between Biafra and restructuring Nigeria [The way forward] -  UN Expert 
It is the temptation of war to punish, the task of policy to construct. Power may sit in judgment, but statesmen must look to the future. —Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State 


Nation-building is hard, but it need not be as difficult as we make it in Nigeria. Nation-building is also intentional. It doesn’t happen by accident. The real test is in the leadership and the actions that create a real spirit of nationhood, and the willingness of every stakeholder to build a united, stable and cohesive nation. 

Sunday, 31 July 2016

Bakare slams Northern elders over opposition to restructuring

Pastor Tunde Bakare slams Northern elders over opposition to restructuring


Tunde Bakare, the general overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, has flayed Northern elders who are opposed to the call for Nigeria’s restructuring.

Bakare spoke on Friday, July 29, 2016 in Ibadan at an event organised to mark the 50th year anniversary of the assassination of the first military governor of the defunct Western Region, Lt.-Col. Adekunle Fajuyi.

Saturday, 9 July 2016

Restructuring Nigeria: To be or not to be

Restructuring Nigeria: To be or not to be

POLITICIANS are at it again. Just like the struggle for a Sovereign National Conference by the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), they have taken the dispute over the need to restructure the Nigerian federation to the verge of conflict, hoping to force govern­ment to make concession. Since last month when former Vice President Atiku Abubakar fired the shot by calling on government to restruc­ture the Nigerian federation to cater for the aspirations of its component units, it has been strategic risk-tak­ing by politicians and academics.

Friday, 1 July 2016

Restructuring Nigeria: Nigeria's National Assembly Shuns Buhari and begins move to adopt 2014 National Conference recommendations

Restructuring Nigeria: Nigeria's National Assembly Shuns Buhari and begins move to adopt 2014 National Conference recommendations
As the agitation for Nigeria’s restructuring grows louder, the House of Representatives Special Ad Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution has adopted the 2014 report of the National Conference as one of its working documents.