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emotanafricana.com   December 19, 2011 TOLA ADENLE shares her thoughts on the movie,  District 9  that maligns Nigeria LETTERS TO MY NIECE: Yewande, dear, What a nice way to force me to write: “ Auntie, dearest, have you seen District 9…”? ( D9 )     Above title’s explanation, first.  Seeing Oyo PDP’s crass mercantilism as main political goal in ’03, I wrote “Nigerian, Inc.” which I likened to “Murder, Inc” but things have gotten worse.   The Ibori/Aondaka’s (Attorney General) mess made “Happy Lagosian”, a  Sahara Reporters (SR)  blogger ask: “Are they running a nation or a crime syndicate?”  I have no intention of seeing the demeaning movie and it has nothing to do with a sudden love for retd. General Obasanjo (rGO) whose governance style made a political writer of me from 2003; I’m still not sure-footed, though!  He led Nigeria to the slaughter slab where Alhaji Yar Adua (AYA) may be unwittingly administer...

I am a strong unrepentant advocate of the urgent need to restructure Nigeria; if indeed the country must remain "One Nigeria" as forced upon the people by the colonialist in 1914. The fundamental aspect of Nigeria’s national life that must be restructured is the current structure of governance of Nigeria. In looking at the calls and clamor to restructure Nigeria, I cannot but give kudos to one eminent Nigerian (like him or hate him) who has come out and unequivocally lent his voice to this matter of urgent national importance. In a paper he presented at the Late Gen. Usman Katsina Memorial Conference, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Memorial Hall, Murtala Square, Kaduna, on Saturday, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) stated  “Since the various amalgamations that created the entity that we now call Nigeria, different segments of Nigeria’s population have, at different times and sometimes at the same time, expressed feelings of m...