By Fredrick Nwabufo The Igbo are loyal, giving and unwavering. They have a predilection for going to the grave with a corpse if need be. They are a dependable ally. If you have the Igbo as a consociate, you have an unrelenting sentinel. But the Igbo’s devotion to a cause, friend or comrade is […]
By Ahmad Gumi The next President is going to meet a great mess. In a metaphorical sense, the nation is suffering from three main disabling diseases. They are leprosy, diabetes, and HIV/AIDs; all in one body. In the case of leprosy, which is a disease that attacks the sensory nervous system, the brain is […]
This past week, education came to a halt in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, FCT. It began with the order by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on July 25 closing down all six Federal Government Colleges (better known as Unity Schools) in the FCT while the students were in the middle of their […]
On Wednesday, opposition senators walked out of the plenary session of the Nigerian Senate in defiance of the Senate President’s underhanded attempts to muscle the senators into silence, and ensure that discussions on the senate floor on the security situation in Nigeria was not scheduled. Oddly, Mr. Lawan, President of the 9th Senate of […]
By Abimbola Adelakun In a recent broadcast, the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, mentioned that most of those who would vote for him are not on social media. During his interview with Arise TV last Friday, Atiku noted that 90 per cent of the people comprising his political base, the Northern region […]
By Niran Adedokun Top functionaries of the Buhari regime minimise the weight of insecurity that Nigerians now deal with, and fiddle with the people’s intelligence. Although security is not his brief, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, attempted during a recent interview on Channels Television, to show that what Nigerians now experience […]
By Fredrick Nwabufo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo used to be a chimera. His influence was mythical, yet sweeping. In the past, Nigeria was too small to contain his stature — as he dominated the horizons across Africa and beyond. He lived up to his legend of being a human Orisa. He is, perhaps, still one […]
By Gabriel Amalu With the federal and Imo State governments showing lack of capacity to protect lives and properties of the residents of Imo State, perhaps it is time for the people to turn to God for divine intervention. Otherwise, what can the people of the state do when those that hold the levers of […]
By Fredrick Nwabufo If Nigeria’s young are timid, tractable and apathetic to economic and political issues affecting their country blame the anvil on which they are forged. The government, the formative schools, the universities and the predatory politics – all are the forgers of today’s youth. A system which lobotomises the young from nascency […]
By Fredrick Nwabufo We cannot play possum about it. Unity has remained a reverie, and an elusive expedition for Nigeria. We long for it, but we cannot reach it because we are not willing to work at it. We are not ready to tear down the iron curtains of ethnicity and religion. We are […]
