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“The Chinese today are outstripping the Americans because America is making it difficult; you need to be dripping blood from your body in order to get something good, even in education.
Nothing I have written seeks to justify the January coup. I wish it never took place. I wish the hotheaded young ‘revolutionaries’ had reflected on their line of action or consulted saner heads. The deaths of our leaders that day need not have happened. I wish the British did not bequeath a skewered Nigeria to us upon independence, and the ineptitude of our politicians only worsened things.
Renowned Nigerian poet and intellectual Odia Ofeimun has issued a stark warning to President Bola Tinubu: deliver on your promises or face the consequences.
Meanwhile, distinguished scholar Prof Udenta O. Udenta said that Nigeria is a great nation with enormous oil and gas deposits yet no meaningful development.