Emperor Tinubu and the Jos massacre, by Ugoji Egbujo
Emperors owe no duties to their subjects. When they deign to show pity, it must be applauded as great charity. President Tinubu cannot feel the people’s pain. He didn’t tell the truth to that woman who clutched to her dead son, Ayiba, and stirred the soul of the nation. He owes Jos—and the many other communities ravaged […]
Of Area Boys and the bastardization of immunity
Fayose’s understanding of the immunity conferred on him by the constitution is filled with delusions
Bridget Agbahime: One brutal murder and millions of accomplices?
Those who killed the woman are not Muslims.”Agreed, they may be pickpockets
The rise and rise of Justice Jero
Jero is a deity. In church, at PTA meetings, and when he condescends to his town union meetings, he conjures unfathomable dignity. Not the glory of politicians that fades quicker than cheap ‘ankara’ but a permanent invocation of raw awe. Once in a while, at the old boys’, he lets them have the privilege of his scarce humanity. Only a few of his classmates still remember he was never a genius. JB was inconspicuous. Jeroboam, the Justice, is a masquerade.
The International Criminal Court and a treacherous South Africa.
The court is a novel attempt at setting standards and checking impunity. The court is therefore morally indispensable in social craters and dark spots where local authorities lack the willingness or the capacity to bring to book principalities and powers, committing egregious evil against humanity, from hitherto unassailable towers and sanctuaries
Aso Rock : The home of a million demons
Those who committed atrocities under the cover of darkness were exposed when their elephantiasis of the scrotum became cautionary spectacles of enduring deterrence
