SOC Okenwa

Okenwa writes from Cote D'Ivoire.

2015: ‘Person’ of the Year!

The year 2015 has gone down in history as one of the most tragic years in the world. Violent and bloody from many indications,...

Ayo Fayose: The Audacity of Impunity!

Among the 36 Governors in Nigeria one stands out as something of an 'enigma', a polarizing puzzling figure in his best nasty element. That...

Buhari: The Man and the Mandate

Anyone who has been reading my articles for many years would testify that I have special respect and admiration for General Muhammadu Buhari now...

Lampedusa: The Exodus

During the colonial days more than a century ago the White men that came to Africa never bothered themselves with passports, visas or 'yellow...

Between Dasuki and Diezani

The 'toppled' PDP government is fast unravelling. Since ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) stepped down by leaving Aso Rock Villa on May 29 this...

The New Nigeria(n)!

For sixteen giddy years (fraught with fiscal heist and misgovernance) the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ruled over Nigeria and Nigerians. What started in 1999...

The Strong-Man Syndrome!

When the US President Barack Obama visited Ghana in his first mandate some years back he had famously declared that Africa, the blessed land...

ISIS: Satanic Is This Daesh ‘Allah’!

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL), known as Daesh in Arabic, has come to be known generally as the most...

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