Biodun Jeyifo (1946-2026), by Obi Nwakanma
There are these times when uttering words feel too overwhelming, because words sometimes weigh like stones. Such moments are like now, when we must make offerings to the memory of a man like Biodun Jeyifo – BJ for short. At his death, I was too tongue-tied to make appropriate tribute. In these times, when vulgar […]
Ben Obumselu (1930-2017)
Obumselu laid the grounds for the issue-oriented activism of a generation of Nigerian students
Ohaneze must reposition
One of the major criticisms about Ohaneze over the years is what its many critics have observed as its distance from the people whom it purports to represent
Whose PDP?
It does seem that the PDP has lost its most corrupt members to the APC. That’s a good thing for the party, and it must now see it as an opportunity to establish a true, solid, and credible party organization, run by a professional staff of well-trained party managers
HIV controversy: First Abalaka, now Ezeibe
It is foolhardy to simply dismiss them, especially given that there are too many special interests at play in the search for a HIV treatment
Buhari’s health
It was always an issue, from the moment Muhammadu Buhari won the nomination of the new coalition of parties, the APC, to run for president of Nigeria in 2015. Reports of the fickle state of his health was a campaign issue. Many on the opposition pointed out that Buhari was ill, and was on medication.
IPOB: These killings must stop
The response of the Federal government should never be to use force to stop IPOB, because that will embolden them, secure greater legitimacy for its claims, and create more sympathies
In praise of famous men
I should say it again: it is in the interest of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, if it must be taken seriously, to explore ways to bring these men, and their likes unto the roll, as emeriti of the University
Christmas in’Biafra’ and other stories
As readers of the ‘Orbit” may surely have noticed, this column went on furlough in the last four weeks. I’d chosen silence as a means of introspection and rejuvenation. Sometimes, Nigeria can hit one with such intensity in the gob, and force us to muteness. As every self-respecting newspaper columnist knows, such moments call for self-imposed solitude, and this to avert burn-out. Nigeria is indeed like that hot soup in the stories, which we must learn sometimes to lick from the edges of the bowl.
Pythons do not dance
There is never a smoke without a fire. Somewhere in-between all these is the problem of distrust. There is deep distrust of President Buhari in the South East, and the president continues to fuel it
The East has got sounds
Alan-B Onyemaechi, veteran broadcaster and Owerri city socialite, is on to something. His company OCBB Entertainment Co, is set for a music revival of the oldies, the great bands which came on stream with the end of the civil war in the 1970s, and gripped the Nigerian and West African music scenes with their memorable sounds.
