Nigeria Village Square

Some things just don't add up when it comes to the Woolwich killings.

We have noted with regret the mischievous effort by sections of the mass media to portray President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as an interested party and the main loser in yesterday’s election of the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF).

Backstabbing is the best way to describe the fate of Governor Jang in the hands of the 18 governors that promised him victory. But he ought to have experienced this before considering and experience.

The good news for Professor Ango Abdullahi is that no Nigerian who has followed his history of public utterances since the 1980s runs the risk of accusing him falsely of being blessed with the ability to place reflection before speech.

It took me by surprise. Well, since it is the refrain that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable it was unusual for someone so highly placed to say the British should have seen so clearly how different we are as peoples, North and South of Nigeria.

May 6th 2013 would make it 3 years since Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became president of Nigeria. As an elected government, the administration would be celebrating its second anniversary next week.

Some lone radical extremists high on drugs commit a crime and everyone and their grandfathers becomes an extremist expert. It is particularly galling to hear some sanctimonious nonsense being spouted about by some uninformed, half educated

Many who have quite rightly praised President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe — strongholds of Boko Haram’s wasting war against a secular Nigeria — will be forgiven for