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  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

    On 29th May 1999 Nigeria officialy entered it's Fourth Republic, Obasanjo was elected as Nigerian President. According to the constitution he was to last two tenures in office each a four year term, Obasanjo completed his two tenures in which he helped to lift the country from the valley of despair that was the Abacha regime, he reignited the failing Nigerian economy and did well to curb the corruption that was ever present in the Nigerian political system. But after completing his tenures in office Obasanjo felt that eight years was not enough and decided that he wanted to go for a third term, speaking at the high-level consultation on Rethinking Western Liberal Democracy in Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo said that time had come to be brutal with the truth and face the reality that western democracy was not delivering on expectations and should be therefore tinkered in such a way that would be able to take care of our pecularities as Africans.   It is true that the Obasanjo ad

                  Senator Abdul Ningi   The Senator representing Bauchi Central and former Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Abdul Ningi, has stated that #3.7trn in the 2024 Budget has not been accounted for. Ningi in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (Hausa Service) on saturday states that the budget passed by the National Assembly for the 2024 fiscal year is #25trn while the one being implemented by the President is #28trn.    Ningi in the interview was quoted saying "for the first time in Nigerian history, today we are operating two different budgets, the one approved by us is #25trn while the one operated by the Federal Government is #28trn. Apparently we discovered #3.7trn was inserted into the budget for projects without locations. This is the highest padding that happened in Nigerian history under Senator Akpabio's watch."   The Senate, through it's spokeperson, Yemi Adaramodu (APC, Ekiti South) refuted the claim on saturday night i