Is Gov Otti Tinubu’s agent? By Ugoji Egbujo
If every major ally of Peter Obi behaved exactly like Alex Otti, the practical effect would be a significantly weakened, fragmented, and less confrontational opposition ahead of 2027. And this isn’t because , he didnt move to the NDC with Peter Obi. No, far from it. This is because if all Obi’s allies adopted the same stance, […]
What do we do with repentant insurgents?
The Federal Government is reforming Boko Haram fighters who surrender their guns and seek forgiveness. They are weaned of their murderous thoughts, reformed and resettled into their societies.
Mamman Daura’s Monkey-post Meritocracy
Mamman Daura is powerful. His uncle is the president. So when he talks we must listen. And we must listen because the wife of the president once told us, in many words and rumpled face, that Mamman Daura had an enviable influence on the president.
The NDDC: A season of forensic comedy
By Dr. Ugoji Ebujo It’s a long script with many plots. Akpabio sneaked into the APC at night and got one of the fattest bones. He had been at the other side, and for so long had lobbed uncommon stones at Buhari. When Buhari handed Akpabio the fat bone, some Buhari hunting dogs growled and […]
Magu and the nonsense allegations: Shame dey catch me!
By Dr Ugoji Egbujo This government has had a few problems. But it has created many for itself. A government battling a ravaging pandemic should not sleepwalk. How can a government that was elected to stamp out corruption not know that if it had to clean up its corruption artillery it would have to do […]
MAGU: The EFCC is miles ahead of the rest
Dr Ugoji Egbujo This isn’t a defense for Magu. Time would tell what his sins, if any, are. But it must be said that the EFCC he inherited was a flabby , smoke-puffing, behemoth, guzzling fuel and hopes of a nation, damaging the environment, and fostering corruption. Anyone who knew the EFCC from inception would […]
2023: The Igbo and political defeatism
By Dr Ugoji Egbujo The very idea that the Igbo cannot compete politically even in a wonky Nigeria is absurd. It’s a new attitude. And it is threatening to shackle the Igbo, its industriousness and its future. It began in the third republic. It could have been born during the military regime. It has to […]
APC Caretaker Committee : A mere life support machine?
By Dr Ugoji Egbujo The president said the party was in jeopardy and he intervened to give it a chance to live. But did he let the sores become gangrenous? Is the party salvageable? Only time will tell. The problems of the APC have existed from birth. Mutual suspicions and incompatible ambitions. If Buhari had […]
June 12: Many ghosts still wandering
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Buhari has buried one or two. But there are yet many June 12 ghosts, wandering the land unappeased. Africans believe that it’s more prudent to appease the dead and contain ghosts than allow them roam, get frustrated, and seek revenge. Kudirat was chased about on the streets of Lagos and squashed […]
The NDDC Probe: Can Akpabio clean the rot?
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo The NDDC is rotten. But Akpabio cannot clean that rot. Akpabio was part and parcel of the kind of politics that seeded maggots into the NDDC. And no one should be surprised now that mudslinging has started. Akpabio excavates one skeleton. His opponents bring out one of his own skeletons. During […]
President Buhari: Five years on
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo It’s been five years of President Buhari. The second leg has started like the first. A few months after being sworn-in in 2015, oil prices crashed. The new president faced an economic challenge against which the nation was defenceless because she had no buffer in savings. As if the oil price […]
The Oluwole Epidemic: Fake documents, Counterfeits, Everywhere!
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Oluwole was the street in Lagos where you could forge anything document. Birth certificates, vehicle paper, marriage certificates, degree certificates. Once you had a likeness of the original they reproduced it. It was also there that those who could forge signatures within minutes lived. Once a driver took his boss’ cheque […]
Our Governors, Corona Politics and Naked Folly
When the NCDC got to Imo state a couple of weeks ago they left a warning. They asked Imo to find Coronavirus cases. At the time Imo had no confirmed case, and the NCDC thought Imo which had many citizens in diaspora, and heavy international traffic, was too clean.
Life has to go on, but differently!
Dr Ugoji Egbujo When SERS and MERS came, they didn’t get us. So when I heard of coronavirus in Wuhan in January, I simply called it OPP – other peoples property. Yes, property! But Coronavirus is here and if our recent daily jumps and the news from Kano are anything to go by, then the […]
What Abba Kyari’s friends should do NOW!
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Abba Kyari is dead. We have learnt more about him since he died. It is true when a man dies eulogies and flowers are laid beside him. And eulogies will be eulogies. But the eulogies we have read since he died haven’t just told us how beautiful his soul was ; […]
Life after coronavirus may not be hell
By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo For Nigeria, Coronavirus might have infected us with many right attitudes. The NNPC plans six first class hospitals in the six regions. The NNPC has lived for ages with a reputation for profligacy and oddities, like being the source of bribes used to undermine the integrity of elections. The NNPC had […]
