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Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, a Nigerian journalist and writer, is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board, Daily Independent newspaper. He is the author of NIGERIA: Why Looting May Not Stop (scruples2006@yahoo.com)
Oh ye Nigerians, you must learn to be appreciative because it cost your wonder-working government a whole seven noisy years of loud promises, invaluable efforts, sacrificial work, sleepless nights and the whopping sum of nearly three billion dollars to bring you this amount of blinding darkness...
Somewhere in Oyo State, there is a man called Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, who lives, speaks and acts as if there are no laws in Nigeria, and enjoys hearing himself being referred to as "the Strongman of Ibadan Politics." From what is regularly reported about this man, and the comments credited to him in the media, he should either be in jail now or facing trial in a properly constituted court...
Christmas is, without doubt, the most prominent among the several irremediably polluted children that emerged from the very unholy and ungodly marriage between a depreciating version of Christianity and Roman paganism...
Christmas is, without doubt, the most prominent among the several irremediably polluted children that emerged from the very unholy and ungodly marriage between a depreciating version of Christianity and Roman paganism...
Please, could somebody just walk across to President Olusegun Obasanjo's cozy castle in Aso Rock and ask him how he felt when he saw the report that the two survivors ofthe December 10 crash of the Sosoliso Flight 1145 in Port Harcourt were flown to South Africafor medical treatment?
One of these days, a keen and enterprising researcher or historian would hopefully assign to himself the really profound and very challenging task of determining when and how looting and plundering became the defining character of leadership in Nigeria...
I have taken time to examine the various tributes paid to late Stella Obasanjo by several characters that have over the years over-tasked the public space with their uninspiring presence...
Why is Nigeria incapable of purchasing the requisite equipment for attending to emergencies like the recent plane crash? Why would a whole nation put all its hope in a private company called Julius Berger? Why is this country perennially helpless in virtually everything? Is there any person at all somewhere planning and directing the usually bungled affairs of this failed state?
The Yoruba people in the Southwest of Nigeria are...
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