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 […]
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.
