Sunday Perspectives
Reality versus illusion: How religion poisons everything (4)
By Douglas Anele It is not difficult to understand why King Fahd of Saudi Arabia insisted that the democratic system is not suitable for his country and other muslim majority
Reality versus illusion: How religion poisons everything(3)
By Douglas Anele Richard Dawkins highlights another detrimental aspect of religion, that is, the widespread assumption that faith and religious doctrines are especially vulnerable to offence and should be protected
Reality versus illusion: How religion poisons everything (2)
By Douglas Anele Historically speaking, there has been a symbiotic relationship between religion and spirituality, although the former is parasitic on the latter. Now, religion tends to emphasise externalities such
Reality versus illusion: How religion poisons everything (1)
By Douglas Anele Before commencing discussion on the topic for this week, it is expedient to summarise the concluding part of our analysis last Sunday the amiable hardworking editor left
On the alleged non-negotiability and sacrosanctity of One Nigeria (4)
By Douglas Anele As I disclosed in our discussion last Sunday, Nigeria’s military government and leaders of the eastern region failed to make inconvenient but necessary concessions which probably would
On the alleged non-negotiability and sacrosanctity of One Nigeria (3)
By Douglas Anele Because the general mood in northern Nigeria in the mid-60s was decidedly in favour of secession (araba) it is very likely that Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Muhammadu
On the alleged non-negotiability and sacrosanctity of One Nigeria(2)
By Douglas Anele It must be mentioned in passing that the foremost pre-independent political party formed by the Sardauna of Sokoto and his cohorts was the Northern People’s Congress (NPC)
On the alleged non-negotiability and sacrosanctity of One Nigeria
By Douglas Anele All the military dictators and civilian leaders of Nigeria starting from Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa to retired Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari had always proclaimed dogmatically that the
The possible impossibility of Nigeria (4)
By Douglas Anele To ensure continuous economic exploitation of the country,British colonial officials had always wanted the insular, undereducated and pliant Fulani to dominate post-independent Nigeria in line with Frantz
The possible impossibility of Nigeria (3)
By Douglas Anele Continuing with our analysis of Farooq Kperogi’s submission in his essay entitled “The Intellectual Case Against Nigeria’s Break-up,” the author hyperbolically affirms that “There is no nation
