Violence and the ’emilokan’ presidency, by Obi Nwakanma
Biodun Jeyifo (1946-2026), by Obi Nwakanma
A reckless National Assembly
ALMAJARAI: A season of migration to the South
Beyond the shoddy response to coronavirus
After coronavirus, the hunger virus
The Orbit: The poverty dole
The poverty dole
Between the writer and the Demagogue
Resist that tax
Resist that tax
Tit for South Africa, tat for Nigeria
Recovering Imo property
Attacking Ekweremadu
Ooni of Ife and the Igbo-Yoruba relationship
Buhari’s ministers: Wankers to the people
Ruga and Fulanization
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SubscribeOrji Kalu, APC, and the Igbo Question
What exactly does being senate president do for an entire Igbo population? The Igbo have been senate president before. In what ways did it change the lives of millions of Igbo people?
The rise of the Chicken Assembly
Senator Lawan appears to be the man for the job. But many fear that he may be too much of a camp follower. A malleable man, who will turn the senate into an extension of the presidency
Nigeria: The coming anarchy….
And the president, rather than sit down and face his duties, jetted off, within hours of taking his oath to the OIC meeting. It is sad. It is a crying shame. And it is time for all those Generals, politicians, intellectuals, everybody who still has a stake in Nigeria to come together and take charge and defuse this balloon before it flies
A letter to Emeka Ihedioha (4)
The state of course must endeavor to lessen the burden on both students and parents, and help students live well as young adults as they attend universities in Imo state. That is why I propose that you push through your party in the Imo State House of Assembly, a bill to re-establish and reposition the Imo state Students Loans Board
A letter to Emeka Ihedioha (3)
Ecology is the wealth of the future, and the disappearance of the rain forest umbrella that once covered Imo especially is a disaster that must be averted or remediated
Paying off the killer herdsmen
Nigerians must not accept for an elected government to pay war tax or ransom to the killers of Nigerian citizens. It would be damn right evil!
A national security risk
Nigerians know what should be done to end corruption, beyond deploying the badly conceived EFCC as rabid dogs: reform the Public system, re-establish merit, and rebuild the police system
An Easter musing
We accept his teachings about love, justice, piety, and modesty, and the continous resurrection of the spirit, which we conceive as “Ilo uwa,” and its final ascension in unity with the great divine creator
A letter to Emeka Ihedioha (2)
A central goal of your administration must be to begin a work program, starting with a three-step initiative: retrain, equip, and redeploy
A letter to Emeka ihedioha (1)
Among the wreckage of that war were Okara’s lost poems – completed before and during the war – which he could not recover from his moving in the fluid events leading to the end of the civil war
Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (1921-2019)
Among the wreckage of that war were Okara’s lost poems – completed before and during the war – which he could not recover from his moving in the fluid events leading to the end of the civil war
In defence of the Nigerian judiciary
A nation that wants true justice and functioning courts must never starve its law givers, and its law enforcement institutions, or make them subservient to immoderate power
Pius Adebola Adesanmi (1970-2019)
I think, Pius has done his last duty to men: perhaps his death is sacrifice, made to save more lives as attention is now drawn to the tragic flaws in the design of the plane that took him home
Lagos and the indigeneship hoax
The origin of Lagos is far more complex than current revisionists even attempt to grapple with. Modern Lagos was not built on Yoruba culture
Verdict 2019: An electoral hesit or a “shellacking”?
When the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, finished counting the votes by midnight on Wednesday, a whole of four days following last weekend’s presidential election, the results stood at Mr. Muhammadu Buhari winning, with 15.2 million votes nationwide, accounting according to the INEC results with about 3.9 million more votes than his closet opponent, Mr. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, who reportedly scored 11.3 million votes. Statistical polls released by INEC showed that only 36.5% of registered voters participated in this presidential election against the 44.6% recorded turnout in the 2015 election that brought Mr. Buhari to power. But there’s more to these results, and it raises a lot very uncomfortable questions, and ought to alert Nigerians to the true significance of the events.
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