Category: Leaders

Reports say a Nigerian, who had gone to lodge a protest against the dispatch of his fellow countrymen by a ravening, xenophobic bloodhound in South Africa at Shoprite, Lekki, Lagos, ended up becoming a victim of the untamed violence of Nigeria’s security agents. Tragic! How can the lives of citizens matter abroad when they are killed unchecked in the country?… Read More

The current Biafran struggle has meant different things to different people. For former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, it appears more of a specious opportunity to exploit the Biafran masses—for selfish interest, motivated by blind ambition for power and primitive accumulation of wealth. The result has been blackmail, political persecution, loss of many innocent lives and, by consequence, the protest… Read More

While Nigerians are rightfully feeling angered by the xenophobia going on in South Africa resulting in the killing and harassment of our citizens there and the destruction of their businesses, I’m hoping those at the very top of leadership in Nigeria are by now learning the right lessons from these attacks. Despite the recent meeting between Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and… Read More

For the first time since the creation of Cross River State in May of 1967, there appears to be a lot of consciousness from Cross Riverians who are legitimately determined to demand transparency and accountability from their governor and other elected officers in the state. The advent of social media made this possible, ensuring that government-owned media organizations lose control… Read More

The recent Xenophobic attack in South Africa has left Nigerians reeling with reactions and calling for the President Muhammadu Buhari regime to stop the killing of Nigerians in South Africa. South Africans launched a renewed attack on businesses of foreigners including those belonging to Nigerians, burning down shops owned by nonindigenous of South Africa. Nigerians have now taken to social media… Read More

Last Tuesday, the United States announced a hike in the cost of visa application for Nigerians. The US Consulate in Nigeria didn’t mince words in explaining the move: The total cost for a US citizen to obtain a visa to Nigeria was higher than the total cost for a Nigerian to obtain a comparable visa to the United States. The… Read More

As I was about to enter the hall to deliver my speech at theAnaedoonline first-year anniversary lecture in Nnewi, Anambra stateyesterday my lawyer and a member of my delegation, Mr. IfeanyiEjiofor, and I were approached by the DSS and told that he must notattend the event. They said that if he insisted on attending the occasion with me thevenue would… Read More

The Nigeria Police Force arrested Agba Jalingo on 22 August 2019 inconnection to a story he published on the 17 July 2019 at theCrossRiver Watch news platform, titled, ‘How Ayade Approved andDiverted N500 Million For Cross River Micro Finance Bank’. Jalingo is a journalist, right activist and the publisher Cross RiverWatch – an online syndicated news platform with huge followership… Read More

A scathing detraction to professionalism in Nigeria is the customisation of public offices. Institutions are built around personalities rather than on principles and service. The corrugation of Nigeria’s public offices and institutions has a long history. But of significance is the brazen privatisation and deployment of public office to insular ends by Michael Aondooakaa, Attorney-General of the Federation under Umaru… Read More

The decision by Justice Taiwo Taiwo to detain Omoyele Sowore for 45 days and Justice Nkweonye Maha who declined to entertain the appeal of Sowore against Taiwo Taiwo’s ruling, portrays the two justices as two of the most lurid representatives of disgraceful corrupt judges on the Nigerian bench. Justice is supposed to be blind. Nigerian judges are not defined by… Read More