Is Rivers State Wike’s Cattle Ranch? By Ugoji Egbujo
Wike is boastful. The temptation is to take his claims with a pinch of salt. But unlike other loud and garrulous politicians, friends and foes alike say it is perilous to ignore Wike’s rants, even when he sounds inebriated. Who would have believed he was bred by a pastor? He is brash and ferocious. And […]
2023: The Igbo and political defeatism
By Dr Ugoji Egbujo The very idea that the Igbo cannot compete politically even in a wonky Nigeria is absurd. It’s a new attitude. And it is threatening to shackle the Igbo, its industriousness and its future. It began in the third republic. It could have been born during the military regime. It has to […]
APC Caretaker Committee : A mere life support machine?
By Dr Ugoji Egbujo The president said the party was in jeopardy and he intervened to give it a chance to live. But did he let the sores become gangrenous? Is the party salvageable? Only time will tell. The problems of the APC have existed from birth. Mutual suspicions and incompatible ambitions. If Buhari had […]
June 12: Many ghosts still wandering
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Buhari has buried one or two. But there are yet many June 12 ghosts, wandering the land unappeased. Africans believe that it’s more prudent to appease the dead and contain ghosts than allow them roam, get frustrated, and seek revenge. Kudirat was chased about on the streets of Lagos and squashed […]
The NDDC Probe: Can Akpabio clean the rot?
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo The NDDC is rotten. But Akpabio cannot clean that rot. Akpabio was part and parcel of the kind of politics that seeded maggots into the NDDC. And no one should be surprised now that mudslinging has started. Akpabio excavates one skeleton. His opponents bring out one of his own skeletons. During […]
President Buhari: Five years on
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo It’s been five years of President Buhari. The second leg has started like the first. A few months after being sworn-in in 2015, oil prices crashed. The new president faced an economic challenge against which the nation was defenceless because she had no buffer in savings. As if the oil price […]
