January 15, 1970, should mean much more to us in Nigeria than a mere ritual of honouring our heroes. We remember January 15, 1970 but we try to push January 15, 1966, to the back of our minds. If January 15, 1966 did not happen, January 15, 1970 would certainly not have happened. My take is that we are where we are because January 15, 1970 has largely failed to deliver on its sacred promise. Those experiments, however well-intentioned they might have been, brought us more problems than solutions to the problems that January 15, 1966, confronted us with.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 03:22 UTC