By Emeka Obasi Beyond hospitality, hosts are supposed to protect their guests in typical African fashion. Father of the Yoruba nation,  Oduduwa, was really challenged on July 29, 1966 when General Johnson Aguiyi- Ironsi was killed in Ibadan alongside the Military governor of Western Region, Col. Adekunle Fajuyi. Ironsi and Fajuyi were brave men who […]

By Emeka Obasi Blame politics for bringing out the Third Eleven of Nigerians who at best should be confined to their miserable homes instead deciding our well being. It is worse for the North. It baffles me that brains like Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu are hardly recognized for their worth. He is one of the […]

By Emeka Obasi Lagos State House of Assembly took a bold step recently with Noheem Adams moving a motion for the reconsideration of some place names and monuments. This is coming at a time of  global condemnation of inhumanity to the black race. The death of George Floyd in the United States will definitely change […]

By Emeka Obasi While Frederick Metcalfe presided over Nigeria’s House of Representatives under Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Augustus Molade Akiwumi became Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament in February 1958. His tenure lasted until June 1960 when Justice Joseph Richard Asiedu took over. Akiwumi was the second Speaker having taken over from Emmanuel Quist. The […]

By Emeka Obasi War they say is a series of surprises where combatants always expect the unexpected. Nigeria Army Chief, Tukur Buratai, with his four decades plus experience in the military must know General Emeka Ojukwu as the man who led Biafra during the Civil War. I doubt if he  heard of the  ‘Steiner Solution. […]