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On June 12, 2021, Democracy Day, PTB4Nigeria In Canada Group held a virtual event that attracted 660 participants from across the globe. The theme was “Rethinking the Nigerian State.” The guest speaker, Dr. Tunde Bakare, discussed Nigeria’s past, present, and future and engaged with participants in a question and answer session. It was evident that Nigerians are concerned about the future of Nigeria, which forms the premise of this opinion piece. Dr. Bakare identified the three-point process to avoid plunging Nigeria into anarchy as Reconciliation, Reconstitution, and Reconstruction, the “tripartite chance at national rebirth.”
We refer to the process as the 3Rs of remaking Nigeria. We believe that the process must commence during President Mohammad Buhari’s administration and believe the Nigerian media must drive a national conversation in this direction. In this opinion piece, we examine the issues raised by Dr. Tunde Bakare and offer insights on the pathway to
Chinua AchebeAs part of activities to mark the 40th anniversary of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), which one of Africa’s greatest novelists, Chinua Achebe, founded at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka, the Anambra State government has endowed an N1 million worth Chinua Achebe Prize for Nigerian Writing.
The Prize is to be administered by ANA founded in 1981. x
The state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C. Don Adinuba, made the endowment known in Awka, the Anambra State capital, recently, while speaking with journalists.
Adinuba reported Governor Willie Obiano as stressing that Achebe deserves celebration not only in his native Anambra State but also all over Nigeria, Africa and the world as the globally acclaimed “father of African literature.”
Abdur-Rahman Balogun
The month of May can aptly be described as Diaspora month in Nigeria. This, apart from July 25, designated as National Diaspora Day by the Federal Government, was the month when the dream of most fundamentals of diaspora was birthed. It was in May 19, 2019, the hitherto office of Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Affairs and the occupier, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa transmuted to Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) following the Senate approval and her confirmation as the Chairman/CEO of the new Commission.
It was indeed a dream nurtured when in May 2017 President Muhammadu Buhari signed the bill into law through the acting President then, Yemi Osinbajo, following the eventual passage by the eighth National Assembly. Similarly, it was also in the month of May that the Federal Executive Council ratified and approved the much-awaited and expected National Diaspora Policy, the first of its kind in Nigeria and a holistic policy geared towards
The recent World Bank report on Migration and Development as it concerns the global flow of remittances has raised critical issues of concern to the well functioning of the Nigerian economy.