Ndigbo: As 2019 Beckons
For Ndigbo, another chance beckons in 2019. Yes, in 2019, Nigeria will go through another election process. After the self-inflicted…
Vice President Osinbajo makes Case for Competent Deputies
Perhaps, one of the critical takeaways in the recent indisposition of President Muhammadu Buhari is the importance of the Vice…
Atiku’s Increasing Mischief and the APC
For quite some time now, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has elected for himself the role of the main opposition…
Between Abati’s Curious Ghost Stories and Goodluck Jonathan’s Fairy Tales
When I saw Reuben Abati, former Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan’s article on demons and ghosts that took…
Shakedown of the Judiciary: Needed Panacea to Nigeria’s Corruption Woes
I will start this report by referencing a statement by the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Uwais on…
Buhari: Turning Nigeria’s Most Gloomy Moment To Her Most Glorious
On his emergence as Nigeria’s President last year, President Muhammadu Buhari was faced with two broad choices; Continue the larcenous…
The Nigerian Bingos and President Buhari
My friend, Dr. Lekky Okotete posted the below on his Facebook page recently. “Over 20billion dollars unremitted to federation account,…
Buhari: His Winnowing Fork In His Hand
The monthly revenue allocation to the three tiers of government for the month of June justifies the arduous cleansing work…
PDP Needs To Tell Nigerians What It Knows About Boko Haram
In a country where the citizenry do not ask hard questions, one can commit blue murder and walk away with…
Ahaneku, Okpalaeke, UNIZIK And Ahiara Diocese
The emergence of Prof. Joseph Eberendu Ahaneku as the Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka came with its own dose of politicking, brickbats, ethnic and sectional sentiments but at the end of the day, reason and wise counsel prevailed and the best candidate, suitably qualified and placed to pilot the affairs of the university, emerged and has resumed duty…
Police Attack On Fayemi, Ekiti Election and the 2015 Elections
From whatever perspective one views it, the brutal attack on Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, a serving senator, the leadership, members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti who are on a peaceful rally by a detachment of mobile police men led by a Bayelsa-born police officer, forewarns of the dire dangers ahead as 2015 approaches…
Between Owelle Rochas, Imo People And The Gathering Locusts
And so they gathered, like supercilious vultures, gathered around a rotting corpse. They made all the noise of that gathering. They hooted and fretted and hoisted the totem of that ritual like their lives depended on it. Yes, of course, their lives, their much vaunted but empty political lives, rest on such empty and hollow ritual…
As We Await Jega’s Imperfect Elections In 2015
I don’t know what was probably on the mind of Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently when he warned Nigerians not to expect a perfect election from his INEC in 2015…
Obasanjo, Jonathan, the Message and the Messenger
There is little doubt that the recent letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan has greatly rattled the president, his men and his supporters. The letter did nothing to mask the angst of Obasanjo who was at his sanctimonious best, as he reeled out a long litany of the misdeeds of Jonathan…
As Corruption Deepens, EFCC Chases Rat In Imo State
Last week, Transparency International, the global anti-corruption watchdog released its ranking of world corruption among countries. Nigeria was ranked the 25th most corrupt nation on earth…
Jega’s Farce and A Nation’s Tragedy
The shambolic conduct of the governorship election in Anambra State has revved to the fore the need for a credible electoral system that audits the leadership selection process of our troubled country…