SOC Okenwa

The former South African President Nelson Mandela is a living legend from all indications. Mandela has attained, even in his lifetime, the status of an icon, a world sage...

Was MKO Abiola an international drug baron? Or was that pinned on him by his local and foreign enemies as grounds to deny him his deserved electoral victory?

At the risk of sounding immodest, something I detest, let me declare that the dirt in my fingernail remains infinitely greater than the entirety of Olusegun Obasanjo...

Here lies the political monster whose political exploits had blood, sorrow, tears and fear woven around them; here lies an old political beast who mastered the art of political mischief and state terrorism. Here lies the glorified godfather of thugs who dominated his environment with the aid of thugs, occultism and sadism...

I feel more Nigerian than Biafran. The shortcomings of our shared nationhood notwithstanding I posit that if we all put tribal sentiments aside and become less crime-friendly, we can build a great nation...

If I were President Yar'Adua finally I would consider stunning the outside world as I mark my one year in the saddle by renouncing my illegitimate mandate!

History will yet prove that among those infamous men and women who 'aided' Obasanjo to defraud Nigeria for eight long years Andy Uba knew much more than any other...

A recent social intellectual gathering in Lagos somewhat illustrated how some prominent progressive-minded Nigerians viewed the viability of a revolution as the only way of re-launching our hopes and dreams as a nation...