Too many fake tendencies in Nigeria, by Tonnie Iredia
Notwithstanding its nebulous status, the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) was able to appoint a director-general and hundreds of staff. It also secured an office space at the federal secretariat and indeed found its way into the nation’s budget with a Budget Code 0111062001 assigned to it. This huge achievement was attained by the […]
A decade after
IT was ten years ago this week that the first article appeared in this space. It was 13 May, 2006, I think, that the first article was published.
#PanamaPapers, public integrity and Buhari: Have we found our redeemer?
Quite some confusion surrounds the “Panama Papers”, the information released by an international consortium of investigative journalists, as it concerns Nigerian public office holders and businessmen.
Fulani hackmen and Nigeria’s clash of civilisations
MY good brother Otoks Princewill was lost as to why many of our fellow Nigerians from the far North have taken sides with cows as against humans whose lives are being wasted in Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt since Fulani hackmen unleashed a reign of terror on their host communities in a frightening dimension especially in the last one year. From Falae’s farm in Akure, through Agatu down to Enugu and many more communities it had been what Fela Anikulapo-Kuti called “sorrow, tears and blood.”
Abacha never stole
WHEN Twitter-addicted Nigerians stumbled on this posting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Twitter handle last week, the whole Internet went abuzz, with most people expressing their dismay at Buhari’s refusal to call a spade by its correct name.
Marauders, herdsmen and fellow Nigerians
THERE is anger in the land. The horrific massacre of people in the Ukpabi Nimbo Community in Uzo-Uwani, Enugu State has put country on the boil. Coming on the heels of similar attacks in other parts of the country,
