Osun and the Demons of Our Doomed Democracy, by Ugoji Egubjo
We no longer have a sick democracy. We have a counterfeit one. Osun lays it bare. Every pathology is on open display. The capture of institutions. Tthe hunting of opposition. The casual slaughter of ordinary people. And the near-total resignation of the public to the farce. We have lost the capacity for shame. In Osun, […]
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…
Tinubu: Too supercilious, often superficial and too selfish, by Dr Ugoji Egbujo
Tinubu’s government has become a propaganda factory. A government obsessed with spectacle over substance and relentlessly pursuing self-congratulation
