Kaduna used to be the seat of power for the former Northern Region. That was the capital from where Sir Ahmadu Bello ruled the region for more than 10 years. There are more than 150 ethnic groups including Hausa, Fulani, Birom, Kanuri, Angas, Kataf, Jukun, Nupe, Yoruba, Ebira, Tiv and many others. The city by the bank of the River Kaduna was a small settlement before it was taken over by Sir Frederick Lugard who made it his capital when the British established the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria. When his bosses decided to amalgamate the Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914, Lugard suggested that Kaduna should remain the capital of the union. The big men in London objected and power moved to Lagos.
By Dapo Akinrefon
A group, the Yoruba Global Council, YGC, Sunday, faulted the 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria noting that created a lopsided union.
In a statement by its spokesman, Chair of the Department of Political Studies and International Relations, North West University in South Africa, Professor Lere Amusan, the YGC said it was committed to the rebirth of a new Nigeria where there “is equity, fairplay and ample respect for human dignity and self-worth.”
The YGC said it was coming as a child of necessity to rejuvenate the Yoruba race to the track of laudable past of rich culture, robust economy and decency
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Dr Fagbenro-Byron
Published 14 May 2021
The recent bold step by the Southern Governors’ Forum has received so much accolades and welcome by the majority of Nigeria’s southern populations. To tell you how long this leadership initiative was being awaited, there are a few in the South-West who believe that all hope is lost and a disintegration of Nigeria is inevitable as a result of the clear failure of the Federal Government in its primary assignment to deliver security services to all Nigerians as well as the clash of civilisations that is masked in the Boko Haram war.
1914-2015: How Nigeria Actually Ended Six Years Ago, By Biodun Busari
Back to why the masses were apprehensive, it was because there were two uncertainties. One, there was tautness as to where the general election would lead the country.
by Biodun Busari
Apr 25, 2021
Nigeria has already broken up! Nigeria is only together in body; its soul has been shared along ethnic lines. Its spirit has flown away.
All well-meaning Nigerians were apprehensive about the state of the country prior to the general elections in 2015, because of two uncertainties.
And, when I refer to well-meaning Nigerians, political leaders; who are the drivers steering the wheel of this nation were not inclusive irrespective of what they did or professed in the public domains. They are the reasons the country flounders in chaos, tension and confusion in the first place.