Tag: Opinion

If not for the NINAS Movement and their proclamation of Constitutional Force Majeure on 16th December 2020 that started the process to decommission the illegitimate 1999 Constitution, ordinary Nigerians would never have started to find out that that document, a forgery, is the source of their miseries. All this while they had been deceived by those who should have cared enough… Read More

Last week a high-powered delegation of notable Igbo elder statesmen led by the 93-year old First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Mbazulike Amaechi, visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, Abuja. The former Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Bishop Sunday Onuoha of the Methodist Church, former President of Igbo socio-cultural group, Aka Ikenga, Goddy Uwazurike and Tagbo Amaechi were also… Read More

For several years, the human rights community had called for the prosecution of the operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) over incessant arrests, detention, torture and extrajudicial killing of citizens. As such calls were ignored by the authorities the SARS intensified the brutalization of citizens particularly young people. The video of the reckless killing of an unarmed young… Read More

The entire world turned its attention to Nigeria that bloody evening of Tuesday, October 20, 2020 when heavily armed Nigerian soldiers stormed the Lekki Tollgate, epicentre of #EndSARS protest and opened gunfire on peaceful demonstrators who were seated on the floor whilst singing the national anthem and waving the national flag. Knowing how untrustworthy Nigerian politicians are, the entire world… Read More

Too often in socio-political conversations, claims of the Igbo man’s disunity is held as a badgering totem to rationalize the ‘how and why’ of the entire tribe receiving the short end of the political stick in the chequered history of this country. From suffering through the civil war pogrom to targeted discrimination in the eco-political and federal setup of Nigeria… Read More

In Nigeria’s politics, the north holds the trump card – an inconvenient reality. By the inexorable contrivance of the divine, the northern region is a chief decider of the nation’s leadership. Since the country’s independence in 1960, the north has had the political Midas touch. Although some Nigerians are of the opinion that the British contrived the political advantage the… Read More

I was a bit taken aback. Not so much by the  responses to my Friday November 12, 2021 column titled ‘Migrants about to freeze to death, salute Europe.’ but by the forcefulness with which some made their points. I seemed to have touched some raw nerves. My main point was to draw attention to the plight of about 4,000 refugees,… Read More

On November 20, 2021, the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will wrap up his current visit to three African countries, namely: Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal. Blinken’s assignment which runs from November 15, started with his first destination being Nairobi, Kenya — where he met with the country’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Raychelle Omamo,… Read More

Since the unfortunate news of the appointment of  Governor Akeredolu’s son, Babajide Akeredolu as the Director General of Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit, I have agonised and ruminated on what the title of this piece should be.  Not until yesterday when l stumbled on Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem -” The child is father to the man.”  The first and… Read More

Last week, the country was engulfed in a mutiny across party lines. After members of the National Assembly surreptitiously inserted a provision in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill calling for direct party primaries, governors, who rarely agree on anything except money, cried foul. They loaded their guns and opened verbal fire on members of the National Assembly for being clever… Read More