I have nothing against Kayode’s bid to project himself as the arch-defender of the Yoruba, whether within the Nigerian federation or as an independent entity. Self-determination is no sin and …
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Modern cities thrive on integration, not excluivism. If Yoruba residents in Owerri are hounded by the Imo State government I will condemn it. Lagos is not ‘no man’s land.’ Every …
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Fani-Kayode wrote that the Igbo introduced tribalism in Southern Nigerian politics. He capitalised on the statements of Charles Daddy Onyeama and Nnamdi Azikiwe to buttress this charge. Onyeama allegedly declared …
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I never met Ojukwu when he was alive. But every historian and other researchers worth their brief know that you need not know your subject personally to write about him …
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My understanding of Nigeria’s chequered history from the fifties to the coup period indicates that the political leaders, by their actions and inactions, gave these idealistic, naïve and ambitious soldiers …
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Awoyokun asserts that if it were not for the ‘Igbo’ coup of January 15 the massacres of the Igbo in Northern Nigeria six months later would not have occurred. This …
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My unquenchable interest in how and why Nigeria stopped turning between 1966 and 1970 was ignited when I saw information about classified U.S. files on the Nigerian civil war in …
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Where is the popular or notorious-depending on your stand in this matter- manuscript attributed to Major Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna? How fares this unpublished work by the man who is regarded …
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I am not discouraging marriage. But it must not be the beginning and end of anyone’s life. Havoc is being wreaked on our society because of the marriage-at-all-cost mindset…
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Where exactly is the basis for Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s greatness? That question sounds rather blasphemous coming from me, a young post-colonial Igbo who fancies himself a historian of some sorts…
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Mbu told me that the then Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu informed him that the military officers had investigated the bank accounts of the members of the Balewa government and only he …
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I have been reflecting about Goodluck Ebele Jonathan; the manner of man he is and the position he occupies as Nigeria’s president. The more I try to analyze his efforts …
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I write this article with a heavy heart because, like anyone who grew up in Plateau State in those seemingly ancient days when it was a model of peace and …
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With the recent avalanche of bombings by Boko Haram or someone acting in their name across Northern Nigeria and right on the doorsteps of Abuja, it is time for every …
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There are times when an angry but wise man realizes that he is responsible, either by omission or commission, for the pains being inflicted on him by his adversary…
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They say it cannot happen here. President Goodluck Jonathan’s men told us after a Federal Executive Council deliberation that the Egypt-style revolution that began in Tunisia and has become a …