SOC Okenwa

Okenwa writes from Cote D'Ivoire.

Biafra: The Dream and the Dreamers!

Let me begin this intervention by making a solemn confession: by the time the great idea of Biafra was mooted and its attempted actualisation...

The Republic of Reprobates

Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian literary legend, has just released his latest book in which he dealt with many lies and liars that inhabit...

Oshiomhole Versus Igbinedion

Comrade-Governor Adams Oshiomhole has done his best in changing the fortunes of a great city abandoned and left to rot away by past Governors whose mediocrity had never been in doubt...

France: Homophobia and Booby-mania

With Soddom and Gomorah historically in mind, this 'homo' nonsense must not break our resolve and will to live in a decent world inhabited by decent human beings capable of reason...

'Ochichi Nchigbu' In Abia State

Abia State in south-east Nigeria is known as "God's Own State" with Umuahia as the capital city. The Executive Governor is one 'Ochendo' Theodore Ahamefule Orji who made some history by becoming the first man to be 'elected' Governor while on the EFCC detention facility in Lagos for corruption charges...

The Slave-Master In Uyo

When you compare Jerome Cahuzac with the profligate Governor of Akwa Ibom state, for example, you are likely going to come out with what is wrong with us as a nation: leadership ineptitude! The squandermania we are witnessing in Uyo and its environs by Godswill Akpabio must bring out the indignation in every patriot...

Nigeria: Marabouts And Prophets

In Nigeria it is not any news that we are battling against principalities and dark powers in high places. You have a whole lot of ungodly elements pontificating godliness but practising the opposite. President Goodluck Jonathan is perhaps the only odd one out as a praying practising Christian...

2015: Igboman In Aso Rock?

Before 2015 Nigeria can still be saved but we must urge collective vigilance and profound efforts in the resolution of the Nigerian project crisis. The best way to go about it remains, in our patriotic reckoning, the immediate convocation of the much-neglected Sovereign National Conference...

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