Fredrick Nwabufo

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and a poet.

We are Boko Haram

As the Boko Haram “intifada” continues to transmogrify in monstrosity; upping the ante in barbarism and savagery, more Nigerians, undoubtedly, will be martyred. This is not a prognosis of doom, but a cringing deduction from the exegesis of the terror group. However, this article does not broach Boko Haram’s future killing statistics...

In the hands of the Nigeria police

What we can do is to raise our voices to a crescendo of resistance; speaking out against every form of police irresponsibility, abuse of power and brutality. We cannot subsist on a repast of police violence every day...

The Homosexual I Know

What this piece calls for is a bit of humanity; the humanity in us that will break the dark covering of violent intolerance of homosexuals in Africa. Homosexuality should not be a taboo subject. It should be out in the open...

A City in the Grip of Criminals

It is midday already, and there are stabbing reports of robbery attacks at different locations in the city. One knifing report says a group of shoppers were leisurely dispossessed of their belongings at a shopping plaza...

About Life’s Tragedies

One thing about impartial, dead reality is that ubiquitous tragedies - feared guests you hate to have at your table - imperiously find their uncheerful, rugged routes to your life anyway. Tragedies are ostensibly mere alien stories when you are not a victim of their brutality...

The Igbo Fallacy

In truth, the gruesome, senseless and depressingly cold murder of a Nigerian of Igbo fount in India, and the ceaseless profusion of crimson Hindustan xenophobic outrages towards Nigerians vivify curious ponderings, somber, sober reflections and unkind truths about the sojourning Igbo...

Irresponsible People Beget Irresponsible Leadership

In society responsibility is customarily shared between the people and the government. Responsibility is also implicit in social contract which wards off anarchy...

The Average Nigerian And God

The average Nigerian does not know God! The God that he knows is the God of his belly. The God that serves him and not the God that he serves. The insular, parochial and partial God! The God of his “open doors” and “breakthroughs.” The God that strangles his enemies for him...

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Forwarded. Screenshot. Jailed

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Detribalised Does Not Mean What Most Nigerians Think It Means

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Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

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Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

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