APOLOGY Please bear with me. The past couple of weeks have been really tough for all sorts of personal and professional reasons. I didn’t write this column last week and can’t write anything this week. So let me please leave you in the highly capable hands of my uncle, Jonas Odocha, who recently penned this […]

When Captain Ibrahim Traore seized control of Burkina Faso in September 2022 after ousting interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, I cheered because I liked the cut of his jib. Millions of black folks the world over felt the same way about this bold, fearless, charismatic young Pan Africanist who wasn’t ready to put up with neo-imperialism or […]

I saw this little narrative online: They asked the Pharoah: “What made you a tyrant?” He said: “Nobody stopped me”. Someone recently asked me why the former Rivers Governor and current FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, struts around like an emperor. My wry response was: “Because he can.” Long story short: If you allow individuals who have […]

Last week, on this page, I reproduced a letter from Rescue Rivers, a group I founded, to President Tinubu. The opening paragraphs:    We, the People of Rivers State and as concerned citizens of Nigeria, are writing to express our utmost outrage and condemnation of your recent [unconstitutional] declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers […]

I felt so alarmed and insulted when a State Of Emergency was declared in my home state, Rivers, on March 18 that I hastily set up a protest group called Rescue Rivers. Please find below a letter we wrote to the head of state and copied to the National Assembly and ‘ International Community: Dear President Tinubu, […]