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By   Passy Amaraegbu People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election  –  Otto von Bismarck.   The first documented census in Nigeria was carried out by Britain in 1866. Following this, others in 1971, 1896, 1901, 1911, 1921 and 1952/53. However the first census after independence was in 1963. Thereafter, the degree of reliability of the figures has been on a spiral descent and decline.  The official Nigeria position is that Lagos State with a population of 9,013, 534 is second to Kano with a first position of 9,401, 288 ( Nigerian Finder ).  However, the Lagos State government puts the census of the State at 22 million while the United Nations puts it at 14 million. Meanwhile Lagos State is one of the two globally recognized mega cities in Africa . These are cities with a population of at least 10 million people. The other is Cairo, the Egyptian capital.  The question is what is the accurate population of Lagos St...

By  Passy Amaraegbu The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. —Rene Descartes. A family of five perishes in one night because their old generator caught fire at midnight and before neighbours could offer any help, the soot suffocates them. A professor of engineering dies in a general hospital due to poisoned intravenous injection he received. Famine is ravaging several villages because the indigenes can no longer engage in productive farming. The villages are now the den of robbers, kidnappers, killer herdsmen and marauders. The road network linking several villages, towns and communities have degenerated and disintegrated. Some of the roads that were repaired are also quickly being eroded systematically. *Nigerian Politicians No doubt, the situation in the various levels of our societal life may not always be as sordid as earlier portrayed but in some occasions it is or even worse. Our society has reached a negative tipping point. We ...