SOC Okenwa

Okenwa writes from Cote D'Ivoire.

Asari Dokubo as a Biafran!

Following the 3-month quit notice handed down to the Igbos living and working or doing business in the northern states, the Biafran agitation on...

The Epistle of ‘Saint’ Babangida

(Photo credit: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images via Flickr) Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) is a retired armoured General in the Nigerian Armed Forces.  A professional coup plotter,...

Fayose for President, Dino for Nobel Prize!

The caption for this piece was originally meant to be "Strange Things In A Strange Country" but at the last minute I changed my...

Biafra: The Future Is Now!

Last week some misguided Arewa youths in Kaduna issued an ultimatum to the Igbos living doing business in all northern states to leave the...

Kingibe and the Cabal In Aso Rock

Ambassador Babagana Kingibe is a Nigerian veteran politician who could be said to belong eminently to the gerontocratic generation. They have been pampered and...

Boko Brothers and Haram Sisters

Before President Buhari left Abuja for London to, yet again, take care of his deteriorating health he had hosted some 82 Chibok girls released ...

The Thieves at Seme Border

That Nigeria is a lawless country is an under-statement. And that 'anything-goes' is the order of the day is also a true statement. Our...

Between Certificate and ‘Cerfiticate’!

Education is strategically vital to the development and greatness of any nation. It remains the key to unlocking the socio-economic potentials of any society....

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