By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Many are leaving. Japa is the word. Those who can’t or who choose to stay bear the brunt. The cost of living in Nigeria is rising. A big packet of milk sold for N4000 in 2020. Today, it sells for almost N10,000. They say milk is food for the rich. But […]

By Dr Ugoji Egbujo It’s a worsening syndrome. We lack speed and stamina. We celebrate small things. We are losing ambition. We are not bothered by the loss of time. In 1977, Nigeria hosted the World and African Festival of Arts and Culture, FESTAC 77. Many say it was a wasteful jamboree. Others said it was demonic. […]

The Temple Hill Supermarket fire

Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Our politicians are incurable. The Obudu ranch is rotting away. They have made it look like a white elephant with their prodigal foreign appetites. The naira is perishing. They seem unperturbed, flocking to London like geese to hold routine political meetings. If they did these things in secret, we would have believed […]

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Peter Obi may be an old politician, but he is a new phenomenon. Almost 20 years ago, he ran for the Anambra governorship; now, he runs like a sanctimonious newcomer leading an angry horde chasing scapegoats. Those swooning over him remember Obi of the Platform series more than the Obi who lived eight […]

2023 Elections: The Three Musketeers 

Buhari’s cold plan

Lagos and the Malignant Okada Banditry

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Pastor Bakare has paid 100 million naira to the APC. He had paid big to serve the country. Yeah, he did it to buy forms. He wants to be president. He doesn’t mind assuming the presidency via a party he hasn’t helped nurture in the last 7 years. Everybody in Nigeria preaches […]

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Politicians are politicians. The cleanest amongst them will meddle with filth. They will protect themselves. Once in a while, the good ones will stun their admirers. They will mouth patriotism but won’t forsake crass opportunism entirely. They trade in high falutin slogans and funny compromises. Politicians are a unique tribe. President Buhari […]

Soludo’s Truth Commission

By UGOJI EGBUJO Basi and Company was an entertaining comedy. Mr Basi, or Mr B as he was popularly known, had huge ambitions but couldn’t keep up with small things like rent and food. To the chagrin Madam, his landlady, Basi brought into his humble single room apartment his boisterous sidekick and partner in daydreaming called […]

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo We love to dump the blames on witches. In the last year, I have lost two friends. Both were young men who lived in my village. I became acquainted with them during the previous four years. They were solid and hard-working. They struggled to create a better future for their children. […]

Agberos have seized textbook writing and publishing.In those days, siblings shared books. Older siblings wrapped their textbooks with brown paper and powdered the pages so that the books could remain clean and fresh, preserved for younger siblings. But that has changed.

So he’s been blaring his trumpet. While seducing the public some days ago, he said Imo state impoverished him. The man, from whom assets have been seized and returned to the state he ruled for eight years, said the state owed him his honey pot.