How seriously should Nigeria be taking herself as a country? What really is the state of her health as a successful, failed, succeeding or failing state? Are there signs to show how far a country has plummeted or risen on the success ramp? It is easy to embrace Max Weber’s controversial political theory which states […]

Something serious happened on May 20 2021. It was on that day that the Justice Minister and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami earned the title “controversial” (as in contentious and divisive, even provocative). The Southern Governors Forum had agreed to enforce the ban on open-grazing law in their states.  Malami equated that ban with […]

By Tony Eluemunor How many Nigerians really know their president; Gen. Mohammadu Buhari? Who knows his office hours? What does he do during the long flights of his frequent trips to other lands? What kind of books does he read? Does he, like former President Olusegun Obasanjo, be fully at work, poring through files even […]

By Tony Eluemunor Wonders will never end, so the saying goes. I never thought I would see the day when a sitting Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, would exhibit the kind of crude illogicality one would expect from a primary school dropout.  Yet, Alhaji Abubaka Malami (SAN) did just that last Wednesday […]

By Tony Eluemunor How on earth does Nigeria go on behaving as if nothing is wrong? How on earth do those in government go to bed at night and are able to fall asleep knowing that one Nigerian girl, Leah Sharibu, is still out there in the bush, a prisoner to the Boko Haram terrorists? […]

By Tony Eluemunor Taciturnity in trying times, when any president should mount the national dais and reassure the citizenry, has been the hallmark of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.  His presidency, which has notably been fast in condolling other parts of the world, would grow reticent when disaster strikes at home, especially, when suspected Fulani killer […]

By Tony Eluemunor History is, unfortunately, about to repeat itself. It is just a year and few months to the next election, but opposition parties are behaving as though Nigeria is healthy.  No intense preparation is on to turn the tide against the All Progressives Congress (APC) under whose watch Nigeria turned into a land […]

By Tony Eluemunor First of all, is there anarchy in Nigeria? Nigeria’s general insecurity is daily made worse by the influx of foreigners, especially Fulani Cattle herders. But it is on record that no effort has been made by those in authority to seek out such undocumented herders, try them in our courts for illegal […]

By Tony Eluemunor It is difficult for me to choose which aspect of the life of Sir John Ejikeme Njoku of Owaelu, Owerri, Imo state, to focus on.  I had listened intently to the talk about the man as he lay in a casket during the funeral mass at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, Owaelu, on […]

By Tony Eluemunor There are university teachers and there are university teachers. Every profession, every trade, every vocation, has them; the real and the fake. The remarkable and the scandalous. The gifted, the skilled, the brainy and the worthless, the trashy, the insignificant and irredeemably irrelevant. Some are so terribly useless that they are toxic […]

By Tony Eluemunor Last Saturday provided a peek into the anatomy of corruption in Nigeria between 1999 and 2007. Corrupt practices were of epic dimensions and the practitioners were audacious despite President Olusegun Obasanjo and EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu’s advertised anti-graft stance. Scandalised readers asked what happened to Pentascope after it had ruined NITEL/M-Tel. Answer: […]

By Tony Eluemunor Question: How serious is Nigeria’s anti-corruption fight? Answer: That depends on the accused, the accuser and the amount of prejudice (bias, preconception, prejudgment, predisposition, partiality) and the “politricks” involved. Item1:Bureau of Public Enterprise (under Nasir el-Rufai) chose the management-contract option to enhance NITEL before privatisation and advertised for OPERATORS ONLY, not CONSULTANTS […]

By Tony Eluemunor After years of the government’s seemingly standing by as insecurity was blanketing the country, a change came. President Muhammadu Buhari signposted that change by appointing new service chiefs. Immediately the new service chiefs set to work, some discordant voices arose from various parts of the country. One of the most noticeable of […]

By Tony Eluemunor Displaced residents of Monguno, in Borno State also alleged they saw helicopters dropping supplies for the Boko Haram insurgents in the bushes Something remarkable happened on Tuesday, March 2, 2021; President Mohammadu Buhari placed a no-flight ban on Zamfara State and directed that all mining activities in that state should cease forthwith.  […]

By Tony Eluemunor Surprisingly, the Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is often seen as an officer who has been  merely kicked upstairs to make way for, sayan Army, Air or Naval Chief of Staff. In fact, there were murmurs of disaffection when former President Shehu Shagari appointed Nigeria’s first Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. […]