This piece analyses the burgeoning intensity of violence in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, consequent to the apocalyptic campaigns of Boko Haram – a fundamentalist Islamist group that has been engaging the country’s security forces in an internecine war of attrition since 2010…
When
I saw Lamido Sanusi’ picture in the Nigerian press, I said to myself, that is a
chip off the old block. Long may he reign!!!
Throughout history and throughout the world, some names have become synonymous with wickedness and negativity. Some names are only famous for their notoriety. Joseph Mbu, the current Commissioner of Police in Abuja, seem to want to haul himself into this league…
The Middle East has been a theatre of constant
religious, ideological and struggles against ancient regimes…
Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji is really working in Abia State for only those he has marshaled out to be praising him, not for the collective well-being of the state…
Whereas Minister Allison Madueke is very
well-known to OPEC and the international oil producing countries as a
knowledgeable technocrat, the OPEC, it is reported, refused to appoint her to
the post she was recommended to fill by the Federal Government of Nigeria on
the discriminatory basis that she is a woman…
This much quoted biblical aphorism is very often avoided by prosperity pastors when they preach before man-made gods. They also do not tell the truth which says ,”What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the lose of his own soul…”
Malnutrition is widespread in the South-East and South-South zones of Nigeria. Observations are that malaria, anemia and other epidemics are prevalent in the provinces…
There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront and address the sore of the Biafran War is the chief reason no nation has been able to materialize out of the space called Nigeria…
Whenever I want to leave Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State alone in order to see if he will change the compass of his stranded way of governing that once glorious state of ours, something in me tells me that if others and I do, the governor will continue to live in a fool’s paradise…
The British knew that the ethnic groups were broadly divided along religion and western civilization adaptability, yet because of their self seeking glory and expansionist agenda, they merged the North with the South in a marriage of inconvenience, similar to the way which the European powers scrambled for and partitioned Africa in the 19th century…