Atiku and the Subsidy Bait, by Ugoji Egbujo
Atiku is playing a smart political game. He is tapping ruthlessly into rich veins of discontent across the country. Some say dangling a cocktail of shiny and impracticable promises to lure voters is worse than vote-buying. Others say Tinubu and the APC, who promised “Change” and then presided over corruption and cronyism, should get a […]
Independence Has Failed Nigeria: Is Recolonisation Still Off-limits? By Ugoji Egbujo
Nigeria has a profound leadership crisis. It isn’t just recycling indolent, corrupt and manipulative leaders, it’s incubating a defective citizenship. The necessary sceptical edge to watchdog democracy has been blunted. The citizenry is aggressively normalising political mediocrity. Failure is excused. Mundanity is celebrated. Stagnation feels peaceful For the poor, hunger and joblessness have acquired inevitability. […]
A nation under siege: The banditry crisis, by Ugoji Egbujo
One fateful evening, the people of Malumfashi, Katsina, sensed trouble. Vultures circled their community, a grim portent. Alarmed, villagers alerted the military, who came, saw nothing, and left. At dawn, as the people trooped to the mosque to beseech God, bandits struck. They roared in on motorcycles and fired at everything. The mosque took the brunt. By […]
Is President Tinubu now an Ajala? By Ugoji Egbujo
Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala, aka Ajala the Traveller, was a Nigerian journalist, actor and travel writer. He was so famous for his travels across the world that he became synonymous with wanderlust. In 1952, aged 18, in a racially segregated America, he cycled 3670 kilometres from Chicago to Los Angeles in 28 days. But he did a […]
The Madness of the Fuji King, by Ugoji Egbujo
When I was growing up, The Madness of Didi was my favorite book title. I carelessly applied it to both the sane and the insane. Every outburst of irrationality was the madness of Didi. In Obi Egbuna’s The Madness of Didi, Didi spends 30 years in England, enduring racism and oppression. After killing six policemen, […]
Is Kwankwaso an Aminu Kano or a ‘Political Husband Snatcher’? By Ugoji Egbujo
After the 2023 presidential election, Nigeria’s main opposition leaders wept and kicked over INEC’s brazen duplicity. While Obi and Atiku sustained their fight, Kwankwaso…
