Police brutality: He-of-the-springy-steps
By CHETA NWANZE Two events I came across yesterday captured the state of Nigeria’s police-public relations with unsettling clarity. In Port Harcourt, angry youths blocked Agip Road to protest the killing of Anthony Obodo, a 22-year-old University of Port Harcourt graduate murdered by a police officer. The youths’ anger is not hard to understand. The […]
Time to call out Odumakin
My personal knowledge and observation of Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, compels me to respond to Yinka Odumakin’s diatribe titled: ‘Time to call out Osinbajo’.
Obasanjo’s letter, “Third Force” and the Conspiracy against Nigerians
As 2019 approaches, there is expected to be high profile alignments and realignments in the political space of Nigeria. These alignments are usually done with the sole interests of political gladiators in mind who pretend that their political crisscrossing is for the common good of Nigeria and Nigerians.
How Shagari picked Ekwueme as VP (1)
At the convention of the NPN which was attended by foreign observers, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari(93) scored 978 votes while Alhaji Maitama Sule (1929-2017) scored 564 votes
Buratai: Ending terrorism in grand style
When Boko Haram Terrorists fumed in Nigeria, and eventually domiciled its fighting strength, comrades, arsenals and other explosive devices deployed to committing atrocities or tormenting Nigerians, the Northeast was the epicentre of the furnace. And inside Nigeria’s northeast, insurgents proved indomitable and irrepressible, by the recluse, into a decrepit, ancient, colonial game reserve with the epaulet, “Sambisa Forest.”
Between Obasanjo’s Third Force and Third Fault
There is no doubt that Nigeria and Nigerians have suffered Obasanjo for too long with his inexplicable savvy to reinvent himself
