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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 ; […]

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 […]

By Dr Ugoji Egbujo Prominent amongst those whose emptiness have been exposed are pastors and imams. A popular Nigerian pastor has been making television rounds,  armed with graphs and pie charts, telling tales of his abject ignorance. If he had stopped at telling us fables about how 5G caused COVID we could have pardoned him […]

By Dr Ugoji Egbujo Trump said it would vanish in no time. He once said it was a hoax. But today it has gripped New York  by the scruff of the neck and dead bodies are pilling up. Corpses are  being loaded into long refrigerated trucks. Trump’s strategic reserve of masks and ventilators have been […]

Rome is shut. Mecca is shut to outsiders. Israel doesn’t want pilgrims too. The devil is here.

Emir Sanusi has been dethroned. He lasted six years.  Sanusi enthronement sparked hopes. The north had been in cultural handcuffs, detained in illiteracy.  The handcuffs had to be unlocked from within. It had seemed that a high profile social activist as emir could hold the key. But many feared for Sanusi.  Sanusi was loudmouthed. Where would he find tact? To survive, he had to stay within the bounds of the throne and let many sleeping political dogs lie.