Nigerians know how to lurch from the pulpit to the podium sometimes like a canine futilely chasing its tails. Perhaps, since Lord Lugard`s disingenuous throw of the dice in 1914 to roll the Northern and Southern Protectorates into union of two thrashing and venomous snakes, save for the months between July 1967 and January 1970, Nigeria has never been in such dire straits.
There was no country called Nigeria, before 1897. Therefore, it is exactly 125 years ago that the name “Nigeria” was coined by Miss Flora Louise Shaw, a British correspondent, who later got married to Lord Lugard..
The Phoenix-like juvenescence and elasticity potential of any nation, the shell of the coconut, calabash, egg and carapace of the armadillo are perpetually destroyed when they are cracked through natural,