Today 1st of October, 2023 marks Nigeria's 63rd Year of Independence. 63 years after been freed from colonial rule by Britain, Nigeria is indeed standing strong with a population of over 200 million people and an uninterrupted democracy that's already lasted for 24 years not a lot, but for Nigerians it's a milestone considering the 33 years spent in military rule. Now for most people the fore mentioned information is common but there is a much more popular question ask on every Independence Day celebration- how developed is the country since from 1960- it is also no secret that the answer to this question is much more negative than positive. But today we are not going to talk about the development status of the country but rather the most important and glaring issue the country has faced since 1960, "unity". In 1914 the British colonial administration led by Lord Lugard fused together three regions from Western Africa, the conservative Nothern Nigeria Prote
Bauchi, Nigeria is not usually plagued by violence but it's not rare to hear news of robbery or theft once in a while, it is odd though to hear news of robbery in the early hours of Christmas. By 3am most people in Yelwa metropolis probably just went to sleep after hectic preparations on the Eve of Christmas, but it wasn't going to be a memorable early hours for some residents of the metropolis. We spoke to one the victims who recounted her experience. "Around 3:00am in the morning I was sleeping when I heard my mom screaming, I woke my sister up and told her we had to check what's happening, she hid her android phone under the bed before we went out. The first thing I saw after stepping out was extremely bright touches and four boys holding machetes, they immediately demanded our phones, my sister gave them her small phone but they asked her for the big one, I realized then that they were from our area and they knew us. They also collected my mom