After about ten years of attending Nigeria’s National Independence Day Parades in New York City, this year’s October 1st 2005 festivities were outstandingly the best yet!
Lawlessness is the most effective ingredient for breeding ravenous monsters for any nation. In the same vein, it will take a real miracle, which is very rare in Nigeria, to stop a president who is unchecked by any laws, and unrestrained by any Assembly, from quickly transforming into a free, all-devouring lion let loose in the open…
Alamieyeseigha dug the hole he currently finds himself in. The perception, whether real or not, is that he misappropriated funds. That he abused his power. That he engaged in all manner of illegalities to the detriment of the well being of the Ijaw nation. The Diaspora Ijaws are even taken aback by his supposed excesses and gluttony…
October holds memorable significance in my diary. It’s of course time of year to reflect on the state of our national journey since independence, which many of us still regard with great patriotic zeal despite the fact that the elapsing 45 years of unparalleled khakistocracy has condemned Nigerians to seeming perpetual purposelessness…
The immunity clause in our constitution was clearly not intended to shield or protect a president, vice president, governor or deputy governor, if they engage in gross misconducts and criminalities, such as rape, armed robbery or murder!
The Silverbird cinema illustrates the beautiful generosity of the Bruce family’s progressive interest in conquering entertainment in Nigeria after night clubbing, beauty pageantry, concerts etc…
I am a 38 year old Nigerian living in the UK and bringing up two sons. My sons were both born in the UK and one of the issues that I am having to deal with is whether my kids will grow up being able to identify with Nigeria and its culture. In other words, will they see themselves as Nigerian first and British second?
The time has come to speak up, time for those of us who believe in one indivisible Nigeria as sacrosanct, time for us to raise awareness and perhaps raise alarm as well, regarding the increasing specter of the spread of the phantom excitement thing that is the so-called Biafra!
The elitist practice of acquisition of homes abroad has become the norm among politicians in spite of the law against it and the devalued Naira cost. It would not matter if the person was independently wealthy and not a public servant in Nigeria…
There is a broad alliance between culture, scholarship and imperial physics. Before the West begins their slave merchandise or colonial robbery, or invasion, they start with scholarly misrepresentation of the natives…
“African writer” is, I feel, a label for those in the West to lump vastly different people together. “Nigerian writer” is a more useful term, but then again it’s not the same as “Nigerian-born writer”. – 2005 $15,000 Caine Prize for African Writing Winner, Segun Afolabi.