Besieged Borgu and Their Jagaban, by Ugoji Egbujo
In 2006, when the Borgu Emirate chose Tinubu, it could not have known it was choosing a future commander-in-chief as its chief warrior. Twenty years later, the jackpot looks like rotten luck: no better than a dud cheque. Achebe said a man cannot live by the riverbank and wash with spittle. If only Borgu could […]
INEC and the Port Harcourt Protocol, By Ugoji Egujo
Before the 2023 elections, INEC appeared ambitious and determined. After inserting biometric accreditation and electronic transfer of polling unit result sheets in the rule book, it blew its trumpet from the rooftops. At the Chatham House, it swaggered and bragged about its determination to sanitize the electoral process. BVAS and electronic transfer were the magic […]
The Chief Justice has no clothes, By Ugoji Egbujo
In The Emperor’s New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen, two rogues go to a vain Emperor to say they can make him a wonderful dress that will be invisible to fools. The emperor, who believes he is as wise as Solomon, agrees. With the new clothes, he will sift the competent and clever from the […]
A letter to Gov Sim Fubara, By Ugoji Egbujo
Mr governor, you must fight or resign. The vultures are circling. Only your fall will appease the jilted god with a blinding ego.
Japa will sapa Nigeria, By Ugoji Egbujo
No country can progress when it bleeds its best doctors, engineers, accountants
Uju Kennedy: Tinubu’s Action Minister, By Ugoji Egbujo
She is an exceptionally zealous minister doing everything she can to earn credit for the master strategist who employed her
