Category: Leaders

Whereas others are for or against the sacked pastors of Living Faith Church; for or against the church and its presiding bishop, Dr David Oyedepo, I’m for neither. First, for the pastors I’m sure they weren’t recruited from the streets and deployed to the churches, they must’ve been members of the church a while and ought to have been immersed… Read More

Ezekiel 18:20: “A son must not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt…”  Therefore, those grandstanding as Igbo leaders should be falling on top of each other protesting, demanding President Muhammadu Buhari to detain them instead of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The objective fact is that Kanu is suffering for the sins of… Read More

Yes, that’s right: Since 1960, democratic Nigeria has had many treason trials without any – except for that of Obafemi Awolowo – netting a conviction or even coming close. No other person has ever been convicted of treason or its garden varieties like treasonable felony or sedition throughout all the democratic dispensations in Nigeria. Even when that of Awolowo resulted… Read More

One Nigeria is dead. Majority of Nigerians agree on three things: (1)That one Nigeria is dead. (2)That Nigeria will break up because Muhammadu Buhari The Butcher of Aso Rock has blindly refused to do what will prevent Nigeria from disintegration. (3)That Buhari killed one Nigeria. As we succumb to the tragic evils of dictatorship of a demonic tyrant Buhari, Nigerians… Read More

Some decades ago as a teenager a village brother based in Lagos had taken me to the late Victor Okafor’s birthday bash somewhere in Ihiala, Anambra state, during Yuletide. Victor Okafor (may his generous soul rest in peace!) was the popular ‘Eze-ego’ who used his wealth to develop his village in Ihiala — tarring roads, fixing street lights and constructing… Read More

This article is dedicated with loving concern, to Phillip Yakubu, a child and brave survivor of a horrendous attack by armed Fulani. From the short video on the website of the respected Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), PSJ Nigeria that tells his story little Phillip looks about seven years old at the time. He had been asleep at home on the fateful… Read More

Ascribe it to the seeming enduring dysfunctionality of the society.  Call it unbridled impetuosity. Put it down to the cyclic idiocy that preponderates ominously whenever self-aggrandizement takes the centre stage. Whatever you elect to say, there is no denying the fact that, there has been a sacrilege in the judicial temple in Anambra State. I mean, justice has been despoiled… Read More

Apparently, the ongoing Lagos State Local government Council Elections today July 24th is marred with apathy by voters to the extent that APC and government officials are being filmed on air begging citizens to come out to vote. Even in the highly politically conscious Agege and Lagos Mainland; people have refused to come out to vote. Same in Kosofe; Lagos… Read More

Mr. Reuben Abati loves money, and you will see the evidence before the end of this essay. His recent attempt to link the struggles of the members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for self-determination to drug trafficking should not go unanswered, as people like Mr. Abati are ever ready to carry out the dirty deeds of corrupt and… Read More