By Dr Ugoji Egbujo The Niger Republic is no market. Though bulky, landlocked, and sitting atop Nigeria, Niger republic is a desolate country. But the Federal Government of Nigeria thinks it is wise to drag a rail line to the Niger border. It designated it the Kano-Katsina-Maradi master plan. The government’s intention is to position […]

A lot has happened to Imo. One governor came and spent millions on CNN adverts, raising his hands to the sky, and telling the world he was a genius. He littered Imo with billboards. By the time he left, Anambra had quietly fixed many of her rural roads. One charlatan goes another charlatan comes. Poor […]

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Igbos in the PDP are sleepwalking to 2023. I have put my ears to the ground but I have heard nothing. Tepid murmurs. Shuffling of feet. Nothing else, besides snores. Where are the Igbos in the PDP? This is not a good time to be asleep. And not another season for […]

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo My father was a deputy premier! Now, do you know who I am? My grandmother said it—if we lived long enough we would see enough. Now I have seen a 60-year-old man appoint himself General Inspector of Projects. And he has been touring the country in a red cap, dipping his […]

This daughter betrays the nation and immerses herself in a singled minded obsessive compulsive acquisition of jewelry, while home state of Bayelsa wallows in wretchedness

He left empty handed and scampered to Abuja.   But it all came to nothing. The men who had egged him on delivered less than they promised.   Once he was screened out, he reverted to his old   slogan and started chanting “Edo is not Lagos! Edo is not Lagos!”

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 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.

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  […]

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 […]