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The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Rescuing Nigeria from the Rule of Lawlessness

A Nigerian jurisprudence has not taken root to deal with our wrong social values, the entrenched negative ethos, the disparity in the wage structure and the revenue allocation system, these hinder the positive operation of the rule of law...

Ibori-Uduaghan’s Rot: Confessions of a Top-ranking Insider!

Recently, a close ally of Ibori and Uduaghan made some confessions. And this is one who we thought did not only share with the duo the underpinning crude dynamics that created all the rot Ibori and Uduaghan gave Delta, but was co-operator of the machine that drove all that to most damning level...

Princewill’s Refined Politics Moves Amaechi Forward For Re-election

Princewill wanted genuine peace in the Niger Delta and in Nigeria, and because of that, he had granted newsmen interviews on how to better the region. Without doubt, as a Crowned Prince of the Niger Delta, he might have a solid solution to the problems in the Niger Delta...

ECOWAS: A house of castrated leaders – how are the mighty fallen!

Regrettably, African leaders of today are still backward and blind to the economic misfire of the West and their Asian Marauders. Old age has eaten deep into the emancipatory consciousness of these leaders, and they have been crippled by the unreasonable aid of the West, through IMF and their Imperialist collaborators...

Jonathan and Dame Patience Goodluck, Change and the Burden of History

It is evident that revisionist politics of blackmail and the use of deceit to cover up facts of history underlie Jonathan Goodluck’s attempts at becoming...

Amaechi’s Search For Rivers Indigenes Integrity

The incapacitation of the indigenes given contracts to deliver in Rivers State is the greatest of Amaechi’s dilemma. Because they are indigenes, Amaechi has found it very hard to be decisive on what to do about the recalcitrant refuse disposal contractors...

An Elegy for Ibusa town in Delta State

In Ibusa, there is no single state Ministry located in it, yet the town is just about 7 km away from Asaba. There is a rising youth unemployment, which has allowed cultism to gain firm root. The Black Axe, the Buccaneer, the Eiye Confraternity and local 419ners have become land lords...

Any Deal between Jonathan, Ibori-Uduaghan!

When shall we stop murdering democracy? When shall the people who know nothing about how government works begin to leave it for those who understand it? Are the states controlled by the Republicans in the United States of America not enjoying democratic or democracy’s dividends because Obama, a Democrat, is in the White House?

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Africa And President Barack Obama

As the Obama Presidency makes its final, tortuous and sure-footed journey from dreamland to reality, it is desirable that Nigerians and Africans must package what they actually want from that presidency...

Doing The Write Thing

As a beginning author like me with zero name recognition in the publishing or author circuits, getting a reputable publisher to sign you on is like asking for Zuma Rock to be relocated to Owerri...

Sanusi: A Radical in a Conservative Job?

In what would appear to be a reckless outburst of emotions, Sanusi was quoted as saying that the sacked bank executives now standing trial at the various courts in the country deserved to die by firing squad for eroding public confidence...

Of Pseudo Religion and Crass Politics

The contents of this piece are bound to elicit plethora of harsh reactions from some holier-than-though ones among us; the highly religious, but less spiritual, fanatical adherents of the several religious bodies in Nigeria, most especially some know-it-all arrowheads of the two major religions - Christianity and Islam – and their largely ignorant disciples...

All the Yak About Homosexuality…

Now some people are not wired the same way we are. For them, and unfortunately, their parentage may have been responsible for their being born with irregular mental and sometimes physical and emotional morphology...

Seeking God’s Kingdom or frenzying about Mammon?

The subject matter of giving and its attendant benefits should not attain such magical aura for that is what it is among the cults, mystics and the sundry false religions. Let us not be like the children of this world...

The President’s Betrayal (2)

How can I explain the inability of the renowned Nigerian entrepreneurial spirit to be manifested by the legal Nigerian immigrant population? Where is our own George Soros? Why we are only interested in returning to Nigeria to participate in the looting?

All Said, Why Should I Vote Out Buhari

As 2019 approaches, those who brought Nigeria to its...

Wole Olanipekun and the Cartography of Compassion

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