Nigeria, March 7 -- A catalogue of Nigeria's grievances found outlet, Saturday, at the 2021 Obafemi Awolowo Lecture, when prominent national voices including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku; the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Abubakar, and public intellectual Odia Ofeimun traded arguments in defining the nation's current state of anomy and how to save it from the brink of tragedy and state failure.

Mr Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, speaking as guest of honour, focused on the nature and the management of Nigeria's federalism which he said was in urgent need of evidence of "equity, justice and fairness for all ethnic groups" as well as the guarantee for the economic freedom...