Browsing: Emmanuel Yawe

An editor’s editor, trainer and mentor to many of the Editors on the seat today, Yawe, until his demise, was also the National Publicity Secretary of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF.

Dr. Augusta Anosike of the Nigerian Indigenous National Alliance for Self Determination has released a ten-minute attention-grabbing viral video that gave an idiot guide to self-determination. Even the avowedly irritational must yield to reason in the magisterial manner she delineated the necessity and urgency of self-determination in Nigeria. Before we get bogged down by her brilliant argument, let us travel with self-determination across other regions of the world.

In Nigeria, self-determination is a difficult concept for many to grasp amid the reactionary politics that dominate our political landscape. During World War 1, US President Woodrow Wilson promoted the concept of “self-determination,” arguing that a nation – a group of people with similar political ambitions – can seek to create its own independent government or state. Similarly, self-determination is the ability of a nation or community of people to forge its own path of development.

The ACF, through its National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Yawe, said the forum received with sadness the news of the death of members of Zulum’s entourage as a result of a burst tyre, while returning to Maiduguri from Mafa, the governor’s home town.