Michael Egbejumi-David

I used to think that American pastors were fakest of the fakes until I happened on Nigerians with the explosion of their ‘prosperity’ churches which are driven by hunger, hopelessness, superstition, 419, and sheer idiocy...

Delta state is in the sewer all by itself.  It has been tied up like a stunned cow with one Emmanuel Uduaghan benightedly pinning her neck to the ground in a sadistic slaughter.  I tell you, it is for shame...

My friend was lamenting what he was convinced was the striking facial resemblance between him and a Boko Haram miscreant who also happens to come from the same State, Borno...

As an outsider, I do not know when the subsidy began but my own understanding of the issue takes off from the Babangida/Abacha regimes.  I think things took a decidedly murkier turn during Abacha’s upside-down rule when, the refineries – by omission and by commission – fell into a state of severe neglect and under-performance...

It is becoming increasingly and unbearably painful to read now on a regular basis, the bombings taking place in Nigeria and the attendant wanton and unnecessary loss of life.  It is even more painful when these bombings appear completely unchecked in anyway...

I guess for most folks, the first hint of President Jonathan’s Murtallabian tendency was the utterly inept manner he allowed the last presidential election to be unnecessarily and gauchely rigged in the South East and South South regions of the country.  From that point on, it’s been one bumbling step right after the othe...

Recently I was in Nigeria.  Right about the middle of my stay, my younger brother on his way to work one early morning was accosted by three smartly-dressed men of the underworld.  He was made to lie face down on the ground...

As a founding member of NADECO, Tinubu was forced into exile in 1994, only to return to the country after Abacha kicked the bucket in mid 1998.  Like the rest of us, the man has his baggage.  In fact, he has his aplenty...