Flashback

Membership of a political party is encouraged by the expectation that it would be rewarding in kind and cash. The absence of benefits and rewards could spell rebellion. Yes, participation…

•Insiders Reveal At every historical point of Nigeria’s quest for self-determination, the bulk of the blame had always been placed on the tables of Zik and Awolowo for failing to…

According to Yoruba history, there is no Aare ona kakanfo (Yoruba war Generealisimo) who did not die fighting. This informs the reason that there were only 14 of the titleholders…

•By The Then Military Governor, Navy Officer, ALFRED DIETTE SPIFF •The Story Of OBSERVER Correspondent, MINARE AMAKIRI Practice of Journalism is fraught with different types of danger. The functions of…

•By Coup Plotter IFEANJUNA In 1966 Besides those who play Russian roulette, a game of death, only a very few persons could hear that their death is imminent and remain…

•How He Held BENIN City Hostage For Many Years Lawrence Anini’s name sound terror to people living in Benin City in the ’80s. Merely mentioning his name could send a…

The time was about 2.10 a.m in the middle of the night on the 15 January 1966. The stage of what could be rightly be described as a  macabre drama…

Change, a permanent feature of life, could be kind or wicked. It  brings happiness or sadness  to beneficiaries and victims alike. Thus distributes bad and good fortune among different groups…

The setting was in 1993, It was a year the military president, General  Ibrahim Babangida’s prolonged transition to civilian rule programme was to end! It didn’t. The planner of the…

A unit of the late maximum ruler,  General Sani Abacha’s killer squad was waiting patiently at a bend close to the Federal High Court on the Catholic Mission Street that…