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Nigera Problems: No Be Today! It was Benito Mussolini , former Prime Minister of Italy who said: " Problem is to a man, what maternity is to a woman". This statement denotes several things. One, it suggests that problems and man are twin inseparable twins. Two, it means as long as man lives, problem will remain a daily experience of his life and existence. Three, the only problem free man is perhaps the man in the grave. Four, every association of man is inevitably rooted in problems.  What the foregoing suggest is that problem exists and will continue to exist at individual, corporate or national level. Having extablished the fact that man is expected to move from one problems to the other, then, one can also rightly deduced that man is designed by God to be problems  solvers from family to social institutions and not less at national and global institutions level.  Nigeria as a country has always have its share of problems from inception till date. This no doubt i...

Twelve hours ago, Nigeria reached the milestone of sixty years of Political Independence from the erstwhile colonial master- Britain. The question is how free are we as a nation and a people? Sixty years after the symbolic handing over of the 1960 Constitution to our founding fathers principally consisted of the trio of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, the first and only Prime Minister of the FRN, Dr Nnamid Azikwe, the first and the only indigenous Governor-General of the Nigeria State, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the first Premier of Western Region and the then Leader of the opposition; Nigeria and Nigerians appear to be in chain everywhere they go. Let's look at it from three main perspectives of Social, Political, and Economic. Socially, almost all Nigerians concurred that at present, Nigeria is a mere 'geographical expression'; borrowing the words of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. An average Nigerian does not seem himself as a Nigerian first without first referencing his ethnic nationality...