Views: Visits 11 Governor Nasir El-Rufai By Henry Ojelu The Nigerian Press Organisation, NPO has said that full implementation of the Governor el-Rufai and Oronsaye committee reports on restructuring will go a long way in tackling the security challenges in the country. In a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting on the state of the nation held on May 21, the organisation, which comprises the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE and the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, advised the federal government to immediately implement the report of the two committees which had proffered far-reaching solutions to the current challenges in Nigeria.
By Henry Ojelu
The Nigerian Press Organisation, NPO has said that full implementation of the Governor el-Rufai and Oronsaye committee reports on restructuring will go a long way in tackling the security challenges in the country.
In a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting on the state of the nation held on May 21, the organisation, which comprises the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE and the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, advised the federal government to immediately implement the report of the two committees which had proffered far-reaching solutions to the current challenges in Nigeria.
The Nigerian Press Organisation, NPO has urged the Federal Government to devolve powers to states, stressing that an overbearing centre is counterproductive to the development of the centre itself and the component units. The organisation, comprising the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), and the Nigeria Union of Journalists […]
Self-determination: the issue of our time and a universal right, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
There is nothing subversive about self-determination.
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There is nothing subversive about self-determination. “The post-colonial state can pretend it is absolute, it is not. People are transcending it, bypassing it, subverting it and renegotiating their existence in it or their exit. The most enduring is the ethnonational model of contestation.” Switzerland has a clause of secession.
Nigeria may bury its head in the sand, but self-determination is the issue of our time. Events are moving fast. The crowd pulling stunt by Sunday Igboho in Akure, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s response, and the self-promoting “Southwest” APC summit in Lagos show that self-determination has become the key issue for the Yoruba. No matter the pretence, no leader worth his or her name can ignore it. Those who are seeking to blunt its edges have no sense of history. To the Yoruba, sel