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Conference, the Sovereign and the Ethnic: Historical Signposts

On the 20th November, some of us were invited by the Presidential Committee on the National Conference or Dialogue to share perspectives on their work

RE – THE SULTAN, THE CARDINAL…

An attached list of attendees indicated that almost every Who’s Who in the Northern religious and political establishments – Muslim and Christian – wa

INEC: Time to put up or give up

This often means anti-democratic impulses co-habiting with democratic temperaments in an uneasy relationship. It is in this tensed relationship that l

Why a national conference of ethnic nationalities is a dangerous idea

I said in my conclusion that of all the reasons he adduced in support of his thesis, this was the most absurd. I then promised to say why today and al

National conference: Ethnic-based representation will breed chaos

Professor Ben Nwabueze, who sold the original idea to President Jonathan but declined nomination to the Committee seems not only obsessed with a so-ca