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By Osuolale Alalade The struggle of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to entrench itself in power or engineer the takeover of an interim administration has a historical context. Notwithstanding the many paradoxes thrown up by the sad state of affairs, the dilemma that Nigerians face represent an encouraging turn of democratic advancement of the country. In 1993, the Nigeria Army, as the guarantor of northern hegemonic pretension with a very deceptive “maradona” General Ibrahim Babaginda at the helm of affairs, nullified what remain the fairest and most transparent democratic elections in the country. By this treasonable act, the northern dominated military brought the country close to the very edge of the precipice. Accordingly, 12 June, the anniversary of those elections, in the minds of the true progressive nationalists, has since remained the watershed for democratic entry into the Nigerian political firmament. The final outcome of June 12 saga was the emergen

         By: Jubal Freeman Dabo                       INTRODUCTION The Southern Kaduna People's Union (SOKAPU) is compelled to once more present to the world an objective perspective of the unfortunate occurances in southern KADUNA as falsely contained in ZEMDAs widely publicised advertorial of 6th March 2017 (Thisday Newspaper). It is no longer news that the Southern Senatorial Zone of Kaduna Sate, Nigeria has continued to suffer great tragedy for a long time now, we have lost our brothers, sisters, parents and even grand parents to these heinous attacks. We have equally lost properties worth billions of Naira. Our land is filled with widows, widowers, orphans, worst of all orphans as young as two weeks old. Sorrow and sadness have become the second nature of the people of Southern Kaduna. Unfortunately, while this crisis is going on government settles for apportioning blames of the southern Kaduna victims who are doing all to ensure the return of peace in the land. The governo