The five governors of the South East of Nigeria met in Enugu last week to deliberate on the security situation of the region. The impact of the now infamous “Sit-at-Home” forced on the South East has taken its toll, and the chickens have come home to roost. The economic and social life of the South […]

Mr. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, whose presidency of Nigeria is still currently in dispute and under litigation has written to the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to grant him war powers, which he intends to use in deploying the Nigerian Armed Forces to neighbouring Niger Republic, to attack it. Why? Because Tinubu disagrees with […]

Bola Tinubu did not cause the economic crisis. We need to acknowledge that from the get-go. He inherited a massive debt from an administration who piled it on, right up to 24 hours before it checked out of office.

The Federal Republic of Nigeria is now, to all intents and purpose, like a patient etherized on life support in hospice care. It is suffering multiple organ failure. There is just very little hope of a rebound. Anytime soon, it is bound to code. The hawks are circling. The grave diggers are ready. The obituary […]

But now, to many like me, and numerous other Nigerians, Mr. Tinubu is just an interim president holding down Nigeria by force until the courts decide the legitimacy or not of his election. Nigerians hope with bated breath that the courts will assert rightful judgment and free Nigeria of this burden of legitimacy.

By Obi Nwakanma On 25 February, with all the state-aided rigging, and electoral confusion, the All Progressives Congress (APC) managed to hang on to a Senate majority with 59 seats, leaving the opposition parties with a combined total of 50 seats in the 109-seat Senate. The 10th Senate will be an interesting one, when all […]

By Obi Nwakanma “If you do not know where to put your hand, rest it on the knee” – Igbo proverb. The inauguration of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria into office is a pretty serious constitutional event. It transfers power definitively to an individual who is then expected to embody the moral, […]

By Obi Nwakanma “No one tells the deaf that there is a stampede in the market” – Igbo proverbOn May 29, a handover ceremony should take place, with a parade at the Eagles Square, to inaugurate a new, elected President of Nigeria. That date would end the eight disastrous years of Mr. Muhammadu Buhari as […]

By Obi Nwakanma Political developments of last week have left many a Nigerian askance, wondering about what might be the endgame for this regime. The current party in government, the APC, is pushing its current agenda of “state capture” with the kind of brazenness and open defiance of public will, never recorded before in Nigeria; not […]

By Obi Nwakanma A massive wave of discontent has trailed the results of the 2023 general elections. A vast majority of Nigerians believe, and have clear evidence that the results were brazenly stolen by the ruling party, and that this heist is a dare to Nigerians to go do their worse. This is one election […]

By Obi Nwakanma Yesterday’s governorship election was shaping up to be a battle royale between the incumbent All Progressives Congress (APC) and Labour Party (LP). If the result of the presidential election of February 25 in Lagos was to be the key indicator, Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was in trouble, and Gbadebo Patrick Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour […]

By Obi Nwakanma The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) had no sterling records on which to run and return to power in the federation of Nigeria in this election. The facts were stark. Compared to February 2015 when the party, an alliance of the discontented, fielded the ex-military dictator, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, a former Major-General […]

By Obi Nwakanma I was watching a Channel’s TV programme recently moderated by Dr. Pat Utomi, and featuring Onyeka Onwenu, Tee-Mac and Sonny Irabor, on the potentials of cultural investments in the economic and social redemption of Nigeria.  Among Dr. Azikiwe’s conceptions of rights, which he articulated in his ‘Blueprint for Nigeria,’ was the right […]

By Obi Nwakanma I bat with those who believe that the violence currently experienced in the South-East of Nigeria is manufactured, instigated and packaged under an internal security operations order conducted by the security services of Nigeria. The aim is to contain the East and create the impression of a “Wild, Wild East.” It de-markets […]

By Obi Nwakanma It appears that Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party is not only surging at the polls, but he is raking in the endorsements of key figures in the Nigerian polity whose opinions matter in very important circles.  General Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria began his new year by penning a […]