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THE STORIES THAT SHAPE US

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited the West African state of Nigeria on Jan. 25, and stated that the United States would impose sanctions on any terrorists based in the country.

‘Lies may be flying for decades but one minute of truth would catch up with them and overtake them’. —A Yoruba proverb

I do not think Nigerians have a difficult choice to make when they go to the polls on Valentine’s Day. It’s either they return the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan, or replace him with the candidate of the main opposition party, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Many opinion makers have come forth to applaud how the West responded promptly to the “terrorist” attacks in France and further used this opportunity to call for the same support against acts of terror in the African continent, particularly against Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Forty-four years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra War, Nigeria finds herself on the brink of another civil war. Nigerians have waited in vain in the last five years for those who should know to show some fortitude and speak out.Recently, a few of them did.

On 20 October 2014, the World Health Organization officially declared Africa's most populous country ‘Ebola free’, 42 days after the last case was confirmed in Nigeria.

In February 2015, Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, will be holding its general elections to elect leaders into sub-national and national executive and legislative arms of government.

His Excellency Mr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCON
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

25 September, 2014

Your Excellency,

With ‘Nigeria, Biafra & Boko Haram: Ending the Genocides through Multi-State Solution’, Nigerian author and advocate for the division of the Nigerian union, Osita Ebiem, offers not only a compelling solution to the failed state that he argues Nigeria has become but a possible way forward for