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, […]

I came across this seriously sad poem online. It was written by Chinedu Nnadi Nwangwu; and I love it and have decided to share it. “Weep, Nigeria— For the soil is heavy with blood, And the sky hangs low with despair. A land where godfathers pull strings in dark rooms, Turning the law into a puppet […]

By Donu Kogbara I am so upset about the unfair imposition of a state of emergency on Rivers State. I have totally lost faith in President Tinubu, FCT Minister Wike, their supporters and the National Assembly. I have complained extensively about this crisis on YouTube. Today I am feeling too emotionally drained to write anything, so let me […]

Mariam Shekari, the daughter of Stephen Shekari, a former Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, and Rifkatu Irene Shekari, a graduate of Cornell, a top-class Ivy League American university, has been a loyal and amiable Personal Assistant to me for a long time. She lost her beloved brother George on Monday. I invited her to submit a tribute […]

As a youngster living in London full-time, I often participated in a BBC World Service quiz programme called Focus On Africa. It was great fun and my second favourite work assignment ever (the first was writing reports about wonderful tourist destinations for British Airways’ glossy in-flight magazine. I’d fly to Mauritius or wherever first-class, then […]