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The governors of the seventeen southern states met on July 5, 2021 and issued a statement advocating for the presidency to shift to the south. This is an interesting development and shows clearly the importance Nigerians continue to attach to where the president comes from. The advocacy by southern governors may also not be unconnected with the fact that, given the trajectory of Nigeria’s population growth, the north is moving closer to accounting for over 60% of Nigeria’s population within the next two decades. Under such a scenario, the north could end up with a commanding advantage in Nigeria’s political calculations, which cannot be ignored or wished away.
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OUTSIDE THE BOX BY ALEX OTTI
“If individuals can take from a common pot, regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take, will be taken by someone else” – John Stossel
In 1998, Dr. Spencer Johnson published a book with the title “Who moved My Cheese?” Many Nigerians would agree that in terms of context, fufu may well pass as our local parallel of the English cheese. This book, which became an instant bestseller, aptly describes a situation of change which humans face daily. He created four characters Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw who go into a maze, which represents our world or our country, in search of food which the cheese represents. The first two characters were mice and the last two were what he called ‘little people”. Every day, they go into the maze and gorge on their cheese to their satisfaction and all seemed okay. One day, they come t