FREDERICK NWABUFO: Hisbah, death for blasphemy – reasons US blacklisted Nigeria

Nigeria is an exceptionally intolerant country – religion-wise. In fact, the country is next to Iran on the religious intolerance threshold. You could get killed, threatened, hounded, harassed and victimised…

2007, 2015, 2019, 2020: If only they could have Araraume for supper

By Awurum Darlington In 2007, exactly 13 years ago,Araraume won the Imo State gubernatorial PDP primary and was denied the Ticket for no constitutional default, Electoral-Act violation or Court judgement.…

Messing with mercenaries on Boko Haram again

By Frederick Nwabufo On January 22, 2015 at Chatham House, London, Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), baited the whirlwind. He said he had suggested to Attahiru Jega, chairman…

FREDERICK NWABUFO: Why is Buhari still keeping the failed service chiefs?

By Frederick Nwabufo ZabarmariMassacre! The farm is a place of sowing and reaping, and the most unlikeliest haunt of the grim reaper. But at least 43 citizens who went harvesting…

The hypocrisy of the south-east

By Frederick Nwabufo The hypocrite minimises his own flaws and makes allowances for imperfections while homing in on and exaggerating the problems of another. We have an even distribution of…

Foiling Bill Gates Plans to Destroy Nigeria – The 2016 Challenge

By Philip Njemanze MD The National Council on Health presided over by Dr Khaliru Alhassan, the former Supervising Minister for Health inaugurated a national committee to implement the National Health…

FREDERICK NWABUFO: Buhari’s legacy of recessions

‘Why always Buhari?’ As it was in 1984 under General Buhari, so it is in 2016 and 2020 under President Buhari? Is it by the unfortunate hands of kismet, that…

Tackling Security Challenges in the Aftermath of #EndSARS Protests in Anambra

By SP Haruna Mohammed, In what initially started as a peaceful protests against alleged Police brutality, which has attracted both national and international attention, a swift response has been gotten…

Who is afraid of the social media?

By Adémólá Òrúnbon Social Media is any digital tool that allows users to quickly create and share content with the public. Social Media encompasses a wide range of websites and…

FREDERICK NWABUFO: Has the microphone been turned off on national assembly’s N81bn probe of NDCC?

By Frederick Nwabufo Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched here not for righteous ends but for…

Imo: Chiji Collin’s’ impeachment, Ararume’s angle & Hon. Heclus Okoro’s humiliation

BY: SAM ONWUEMEODO On Friday, November 13, 2020, Rt. Hon. Chiji Collins was impeached as the Speaker of the State House of Assembly. The report was that, nineteen, out of…

The crackdown on #EndSARS activists

By Simon Kolawole Any hopes that we are going to quickly move on from the tragic #EndSARS protests and enter into the phase of reconstruction and rehabilitation are disappearing by…

Why Trump is afraid to leave the White House

By Timothy L. O’Brien Donald Trump is the luckiest man alive. Unlike almost, well, everyone, he’s been protected from the consequences of his own mistakes his entire life. Born into…

We can re-write Nigeria in Arabic — what matters is governance

By Frederick Nwabufo Bigotry. We are big on it. To inflame passions and to smoke out the most reticent of Nigerians, flagellate the tempers of religion and ethnicity. Yes, then…

Muslims more loyal to Christ than Christendom

By Reno Omokri Recently, I wrote about the difference between Christianity and Islam and the feedback from many Muslims exposed a lacuna in their understanding of Christianity, which is quite…