The caption for this piece was originally meant to be “Strange Things In A Strange Country” but at the last minute I changed my mind and settled for the above. …
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Nigeria Matters
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Last week some misguided Arewa youths in Kaduna issued an ultimatum to the Igbos living doing business in all northern states to leave the north before the 1st of October …
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There is an age long presumption in Nigeria’s political discourse about the existence of a Hausa-Fulani axis of evil that has supposedly monopolized the country’s politics since the infamous amalgamation …
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I woke up from my nightmarish slumber with a loud scream that woke up everybody in my house. Sitting up on my bed, I asked my startled wife for a …
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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close …
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In security parlance, officers are trained to be firm, fair and consistent to safeguard their safety and the security of the society they protect. By complacency, if an officer reneges …
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Ambassador Babagana Kingibe is a Nigerian veteran politician who could be said to belong eminently to the gerontocratic generation. They have been pampered and fed for decades with little or …
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When President Muhammadu Buhari announced the people he has selected to occupy some of the most strategic positions in his regime, there was understandable uproar across the country. Nigerians looked …
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Before President Buhari left Abuja for London to, yet again, take care of his deteriorating health he had hosted some 82 Chibok girls released by the Boko Haram terrorist organization. …
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When Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), declared that Senator Dino Melaye was once a corruption fighter, many of us considered the revelation bizarre. …
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That Nigeria is a lawless country is an under-statement. And that ‘anything-goes’ is the order of the day is also a true statement. Our potentially-great nation has major socio-political problems …
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The fingertip of Esau, the voice of Jacob touched the internet again a few days ago, via those whose stock in national or international trade is to hear the sudden …
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The symbolic event of Friday, May 11, 2017, had occupied my mind for some time: the day multitudes of Nigerian political heavyweights and pretenders, with their allies in the business …
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Education is strategically vital to the development and greatness of any nation. It remains the key to unlocking the socio-economic potentials of any society. When the educational priority is gotten …
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Lexicographers have their ways with terminologies. What, for instance, is the relationship between a wake of vultures and a wake in fluid dynamics? Whereas a wake of vultures refers to …
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This is the time to begin to clamor for restructuring of Nigeria. The real Igbo man or woman should be rallied around to be president of Nigeria in the 2019 …