Offiong Aqua: Meeting a part of Nigerian history, by Owei Lakemfa
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Traditional politicians of the sort that had been actively involved in partisan politics since independence were late comers to the democracy movement of the 1990s.
Lai MohammedThe readers may be wondering why I say again. It is to connect the past with the present. It is about Lai Mohammed’s unrelenting efforts to hamstring the media since 2017. It is not unusual in these climes to have spacecraft in readiness to transport leaders into the clouds for them to lose their heads. Exactly 32 years ago, I wrote in these pages, drawing the attention of President Ibrahim Babangida to the cheer orchestra and the clapping crowd around him. The piece was captioned “Amicus Plato…” It reads as follows: x “In a period o...