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General Abdulsalami and the Indian Hospital: The Shame of a Nation, by Ugoji Egbujo

General Abdulsalami and the Indian Hospital: The Shame of a Nation, by Ugoji Egbujo

A few days ago an Indian hospital, Krishna Shalby in Ahmedabad, released a promotional film. It called the footage “A milestone in international care” and “Clinical Excellence Beyond Borders.” Had the title been written by poor Nigerian children, it might as well have read: Shame on Nigeria! The milestone, it seems, is that the hospital […]
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The rise and rise of Justice Jero

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 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

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

The Judges and the DSS : The fumigation of temple

The Judges and the DSS : The fumigation of temple

When Jesus chased away those who had made the defilement of the temple their occupation, he was perhaps short on due process. But that is what rottenness and wanton impunity invite – drastic intervention. If that synagogue were a Nigerian institution, many would have flung his rule of love at Him. And labeled him a rascally hypocrite – preaching love and ruthlessly whipping elders.