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Reactions have emerged following the death of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Personnel Lance Corporal Ogah Bercy, attached to the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), who died of complications from snakebite…
2023 election: The north is indispensable
By Fredrick Nwabufo In Nigeria’s politics, the north holds the trump card – an inconvenient reality. By the inexorable contrivance of the divine, the northern region is a chief decider…
2023: The raging fear of direct primaries
By Ibe Pascal Arogorn “Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes…
Nigeria needs a ‘strong man’ as president
BY FREDRICK NWABUFO We hear ‘’strong man’’, and the visage of a rotund, bumbling African dictator in Khaki and jackboots comes to mind. But permit me to appropriate the word…
Stay-At-Home: Time For IPOB To Change Strategy
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has for some time now become a government of its own in the South East region of the country.…
Preparing for Anambra governorship polls
ALL eyes are on the security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure a transparent and credible process as the Anambra governorship election holds on Saturday. The exercise…
OPINION: Anambra Governorship Polls On My Mind
By Monima Daminabo Six days from today, the good people of Anambra State in the embattled South East geopolitical zone will be expected to cast their votes pursuant to electing…
The Economist and its unrelenting doom, gloom about Nigeria
By Fredrick Nwabufo The Economist, the international weekly newspaper, has been steadfast and dutiful in its pursuit of a solitary narrative about Nigeria. Going by this newspaper’s disposition towards Nigeria,…
One year after #EndSARS — but no lessons learnt
By Fredrick Nwabufo October 2020 is a watershed in Nigeria’s revolutionary history. It is a time that evokes courage, trepidation, solemnity, and despair. Nigerian consciences across divides mobilised and made…
Peter Obi could have said ‘sorry’
By Abimbola Adelakun The most significant defence former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, put up on why his name featured on the Pandora Papers —another round of private financial dealings…
Akinwumi Fredrick Nwabufo’s Adesina, Buba Marwa, Osinbajo — My pick for president
By Frederick Nwabufo Nigeria is not in short supply of true leaders. The country’s diversity and generous human resources offer a limitless pool of talents, skills, abilities and character. Nigeria…
Why ‘Unknown Gunmen’ Must Be Denounced
Numerous claims, counter claims, allegations, counter allegations and conspiracy theories have been raised to unravel the real identities and power brokers behind the South East insecurity menace. Nigeria is currently…
OPINION: IPOB and the lost cause
IPOB and the lost cause By Dele Sobowale Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster” – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, in…
When people destroy themselves
BY TOYYIB MUSA-OMOLOJA Few people today will not marvel at the self-destruction going on in the south-east of Nigeria. The insanity which started with attacks on symbols and institutions of…
OPINION: Nigeria’s corruption respects diversity and federal character
BY FREDRICK NWABUFO How much money, property does a man need? I am compelled to believe that the faculty for primitive accumulation is a pre-historic flaw of the African species.…
