Editorials - Media

• Jump-starting the national dialogue
  http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/politics/pp806801.html
  The Guardian
  Tuesday,December 19, 2000
  [excerpt] AT the just concluded inaugural yearly colloquium of the Ajasin Foundation, elderstatesman and one of the remaining patriachs of the nationalist struggle, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, threw an almost new option on the table as a way out of the heated controversy over the convocation or otherwise of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC)....full story

• National conference minus government?
  http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial2/en805301.html
  The Guardian
  Monday,December 4, 2000
  [excerpt] ELDER statesman Chief Anthony Enahoro has introduced a new dimension to the roaring debate on the imperative of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC). Fearing that the government is stalling on the project, Enahoro has called on individual ethnic nationalities to take the initiative and convoke the conference even without government support and participation.....full story

• National Assembly and Review of Constitution
  PostExpress
  June 3, 2000
  [excerpt] The National Assembly has decided to take on the job of reviewing the military- produced 1999 Constitution. Such a review, if undertaken under the present circumstances, is unlikely to advance the course of democracy. It will result in prodigal waste of public funds, and would likely end up producing a legislature-imposed constitution in place of a military-imposed document instead of a constitution by Nigerian citizens, acceptable to all.....full story

• The Clamour For Confederation
  http://allafrica.com/stories/200004190329.html
  Tempo (Lagos)
  April 19, 2000
  [excerpt] Last February, Kaduna State experienced an orgy of violence and destruction occasioned by the alleged attempts of the State Government to impose Sharia on the citizenry. Most of those who fell victims of the arsonists were reported to be people from the South- Eastern part of the country....full story

• At a time like this - Confederation
  http://www.vanguardngr.com/va/042000/vc2030400.htm
  Vanguard
  Transmitted MONDAY, 3rd April, 2000
  [excerpt] THIS idea of a Confederation of the Republic of Nigeria has been bounced around from wall-to- wall over the years. It usually appears at a time like this when the air is alive with various forms of distracting and distressing signals, giving rise to the climate in which distrust, fear and a sense of insecurity are spawned.....full story

• Confederation: The crisis of confidence
  http://www.vanguardngr.com/va/032000/FT229030.htm
  Vanguard
  Transmitted Wednesday, 29 March, 2000
  [excerpt] THE seemingly crisis- prone Fourth Republic is once again manifesting another symptom of socio-political distress and uncertainty. Since the present civilian administration headed by President Olusegun Obasanjo came to power, different ethnic formations in the country have taken turns to make demands, which express a lack of confidence in the Nigerian nation state.....full story

• When All Nigerians Demanded Confederacy
  http://www.vanguardngr.com/va/042000/is1010300.htm
  Vanguard
  SATURDAY, 25 March, 2000
  [excerpt] THE Niger Delta and the West championed the call for a Sovereign National Conference (SNC). Some states in the North brought the political waters to a boil when they introduced Sharia. The East raised the stakes when it demanded confederacy.....full story

• The Path to a Sovereign National Conference
  PostExpress 12/21/99
  [excerpt] WITHIN an interval of twenty-four hours, a Deputy Chairman of Shomolu Local Government in Lagos and his son were murdered in cold blood, presumably by hoodlums and bandits? and the Executive Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu narrowly escaped death in the very early hours of the morning.....full story

• SNC 21st Century Nigeria - A Threatened Federation?
  PostExpress 12/12/99
  [excerpt] ACCORDING to Alhaji Balarabe Musa, the Sharia legal system is superior to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Making this assertion, Alhaji Musa, a former Kaduna State governor hinged it on the fact that the constitution is a human constraption while the Sharia is a law handed down by God.....full story

• SNC Sovereign National Conference: The Recess is Over
  PostExpress 12/07/99
  [excerpt] IT would seem that the short recess from the national business of clamouring for a Sovereign National Conference is over. In the wake of the freshly intensified ethnic, inter - and intra - violence, lethal wave of crime, banditry, parliamentary thuggery and all that, it is being loudly claimed that the only option for attaining domestic peace is the conduct of a national confab on the national question.....full story

• The Concept of Regional Armies
  PostExpress 08/12/98
  [excerpt] RECENTLY, calls have come from different parts of Nigeria for the restructuring of the Nigerian Armed Forces as presently constituted into regional units. The military authorities have, through their spokesman, Col. Ugbo, dismissed these calls on the premise that they would lead to an unusual arrangement. The seeming trivialisation of these calls is unfortunate because the Nigerian armed forces have, as a group, become the issue in contemporary Nigerian politics.....full story

• SNC Restructuring a Battered Federal System
  PostExpress 08/04/98
  [excerpt] RISING from a two day conference recently in Enugu, frontline politicians of Igbo origin declared, "The basis on which the Igbos shall partake meaningfully in the present political transition would be the promotion of a true federation with six regions based on the current six geo-political zones in the country."....full story