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 and re-contextualise it for the purpose of this column. In my context, a ‘’strong man’’ embodies discipline, audacity, courage, and character. Nigeria needs a ‘’strong […]
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. The group, which claims to be fighting for the rights of the Igbo of the region, has constituted itself into a law, ordering the people […]
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 is unique in many ways as political analysts believe it will largely reveal the commission’s readiness for the future conduct of elections and foreshadow the […]
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 a successor to the incumbent governor Willie Obiano, whose tenure expires in March 2022. Ordinarily, several factors make the coming polls exercise out of the […]
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, it appears there is only doom and gloom in the country; Nigeria is a place where the sun never rises; there is always darkness, chaos, […]
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 demands on the government – to end police brutality – with the #EndSARS campaign. Regime power succumbed to people power – but sadly in the […]
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 expose that confirms how the rich and powerful people worldwide take care of themselves— is that the transitional process that brought him to office was […]
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 is blessed with all that a nation needs to be a lodestar in the galaxy of nations. But why do misfits end up in the […]
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 ravaged by unprecedented wave of overlapping security challenges ranging from terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and robbery amongst others. It is not surprising when the 2021 Global […]
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 Beyond Good and Evil. These days, each time the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, is in the news, I weep quietly. The leaders of what […]
