2027: Nigeria must not go the 1966–69 route again
There is a proverb that says those who stumble twice on the same stone deserve to break their necks. Nigeria fought a bitter 30-month civil war that claimed millions of lives and left the country torn apart and gasping for breath till today. One of the remote causes of that war—electoral fraud-related violence—is rearing its […]
Celebrating Anthony Joshua’s boxing feats
NIGERIANS woke up last Sunday morning to the heart-warming news of Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua’s latest boxing victory against Kubrat Pulev. Joshua retained his world heavyweight titles by knocking out Pulev in the ninth round on Saturday night, December 12, 2020. A Briton, born to a Nigerian mother, Yeta, and Robert Joshua, an Irish man […]
US rescue mission in Nigeria
ON Saturday, October 31, 2020, news came that the United States of America had successfully carried out a military operation in Nigeria, rescuing and flying home an American citizen. The mission was carried out by the US Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 which was conveyed to the action spot by the US Air Force Special […]
Tribute to Chief Emma Okocha, Ikemba of Asaba
IT comes with a rude shock that Chief Emma Okocha, renowned author of Blood on the Niger, is no more. Men take their places in history as soon as they pass on. As Ted Kennedy once told Barack Obama before he became President, men do not choose the time; the time chooses men – for […]
These ‘handshakes’ must continue
OUR ethnic, religious, cultural and regional differences are the greatest demons confronting the development of Nigeria into a strong, united and progressive country. Nigeria is one of the most unsuccessful experiments in “unity in diversity”. Sixty years after independence Nigeria is far less integrated than it was in 1960. At least at that time Nigerians […]
Balarabe Musa, true champion of the masses
THE outpouring of accolades that trailed the death of Second Republic Governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, is a rich testimonial of appreciation of the exemplary life and political legacies he left behind. A diehard exponent of “democratic humanism”, a form of socialist ideology of the Mallam Aminu Kano school of politics, Musa […]
