Michael Egbejumi-David

Ms Ogar was practically frothing at the mouth.  I thought that as a spokesperson for the DSS and as a Nigerian, the lady would be glad that mad people did not bomb anywhere, but her countenance and her delivery suggested otherwise.  She sermonised that every time the APC loses an election, bombs are let off in Nigeria...

Men in their late 40s and 50s begin to think seriously about retirement.  In Nigeria when you retire, you are on your own and everything is in the air.  You live in a state of perpetual uncertainty.  You are never sure if you will get your regular entitlements or whether some civil servant thief will make off with it or stick it in his account for a few years...

Throughout history and throughout the world, some names have become synonymous with wickedness and negativity.  Some names are only famous for their notoriety.  Joseph Mbu, the current Commissioner of Police in Abuja, seem to want to haul himself into this league...

One of the theories I find difficult to understand is the idea that the federal government is actually orchestrating all the mayhem in parts of the country; that the government is killing its citizens, slaughtering villagers and children in large numbers for some incoherent political gains...

When government officials are accused of high corruption or wrong-doing, those officials know that, at worst, they have plenty of time to perfect their alibi.  Jonathan usually does nothing - even after his citizens have shouted themselves hoarse.  His standard approach is to hunker down and hope that the matter would go away...

I was shocked to hear the President say that we do not have a modern army.  We don’t?  What then has been happening to all the billions that go into Defence budgets every year?  So, in a way, I was relieved to learn that the Americans are coming to help us out...

Some of our brothers have turned the country upside down.  Fear stalks citizens like long lazy shadows.  Abuja, in particular, is as nervous as a virgin.  If it’s not Boko Haram today, then it’s Herdsmen who also happen to be experts in directing helicopter drop-offs and are equally smooth in their use of semi-automatic weapons...

Not a whole lot of positive news rushes out of Nigeria – especially lately, but one of the things we got absolutely right was our determined leadership and our drive in the pursuit of the emancipation of the Black man.  Nigeria was right on point in its dogged fight for the liberation of all Africans, particularly in places like Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and South Africa...