The debate over Lagos State’s deportation of some Igbo elements to Anambra State has done two things at once. One, it has underlined the shakiness of the idea of one Nigeria. Then, two, in focusing too narrowly on an ethnic explanation, the debate has obfuscated what is a much broader, and fundamental, issue…
I sense a fresh inspiration that Godlessness, lack of unity and solidarity, internationalism, arrogance and the rule by the ideological fanatics who appropriate to themselves “knowledge” perpetual and eternal, are some of the factors that have resulted in the state of fear and discord world-wide…
There is general uneasiness and peace of the graveyard in Nigeria. The current state of the nation is disturbing to all concerned citizens who genuinely believe in the structural giant and greatness of Nigeria among the comity of nations…
A young American who was entrusted with national security duties, absconded with a trove of vital national intelligence materials and later surfaced in Hong Kong. He later slipped out of his hotel in the height of night and boarded a Moscow-bound Aeroflot. He landed on a Russian chess-board…
The deportation of Ndigbo from Gov. Babatunde Fashola’s Lagos State has generated a lot of comments and is still generating more, with the ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, threatening to go to court…
Over the years, I have patiently observed with pity the regular ignorant assertions by some persons who appropriate to themselves knowledge of things they know little or nothing about in Nigerian public affairs…
The psyche of an average Nigeria has been programmed to react and respond to situations in such a manner that reminds us of the long years of military rule and dictatorship…
There was nothing funny about a bloodied up grown man weeping hysterically in public, and complaining to whoever cared to listen that they robbed him of the 10,000 naira he wanted to use to fly to London to see the royal baby…
The abysmal inadequacy of public primary school teachers in Ngor Okpala local government area should be a source of concern to all who hold the education of their wards close to the heart…
In a world in which wars are now regarded as instruments of national policy, there is absolute need to set down and follow rules that regulate armed conflict…
The rate of divorce among African immigrants, of which Nigerians are a sizable portion, is climbing to astronomical proportions…