Ohanaeze at 50: AI-KO’s insider story, by Ochereome Nnanna
I first met Russia-educated Agbeze Ireke Kalu Onuma (AI-KO) in 2002 when I went to an Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo event in the Enugu residence of retired Justice Eze Ozobu. He had just emerged as the President-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation. I was pleasantly surprised to see a young Abiriba man involved in the […]
Wike versus Fubara’s red biro, by Ochereome Nnanna
ABUJA Minister, Nyesom Wike, held absolute power for eight years as Governor of Nigeria’s foremost oil state, Rivers State. Yet, he did not really understand what power was. As Governor, Wike caged his predecessors, the same ones that built up his political career. There is an adage among my people that a person who dresses a […]
Tinubu’s coastal pet, by Ochereoma Nnanna
ONE of the biggest infrastructural projects that Muhammadu Buhari (easily the most backward leader Nigeria ever produced) did was the controversial railway project from Kano to his father’s village, Maradi in Niger Republic. Technically, Buhari is an alien, but despite his obvious inadequacies, Nigerians, including some celebrated professors, gave him their support to lead. Buhari […]
North’s internally generated terrorism, by Ochereoma Nnanna
Kidnapping is as old as crime itself. The first time I became familiar with it was in early secondary school when I read crime novels by James Hadley Chase, Harold Robbins and others. These thriller writers helped us hone our writing skills. In those formative years of the 1970s, kidnapping was hardly known in any part […]
How Atiku killed his presidential ambition, by Ochereome Nnanna
FORMER Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, called out President Bola Tinubu and his Works Minister, Senator Dave Umahi, over the signature project: Lagos to Calabar Highway. Atiku did what the Godswill Akpabio-led National Assembly ought to have done but did not do: ask the administration to tell Nigerians the facts and figures of the 700 kilometre […]
Bobrisky, cowardice and law enforcement, by Ochereome Nnanna
I WATCHED with great bemusement the comedic arrest and arraignment of Idris Okuneye (Bobrisky) staged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Guess what he was charged with? Abuse of the Naira and money laundering. Right before our watchful eyes, EFCC acceded to drop the more serious money laundering charge, leaving Nigeria’s number one […]
