Gov Orji chasing rats, while Abia is on fire
In the last couple of months, some readers have been accusing me of writing about socio-political developments and failures of government in other states of Nigeria, while keeping a blind eye on the...
View ArticleMy fears for proposed opposition parties’ merger
The news that the merger project of the opposition political parties, being spearheaded by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change...
View Article2015 and the political shame foretold
When, in 2011, President Goodluck Jonathan was reported to have promised governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he would only do a single term, if they supported him to get the political...
View ArticleAlamieyeseigha: Let those without sin cast the first stone
I must say that I admire President Goodluck Jonathan’s courage. It’s not everyday that a country’s president and one who is fighting many political battles, as Jonathan, would seek the nod of the...
View ArticleAchebe’s dead but his manhood’s alive
Last Friday, while the world mourned literary icon and academic, Professor Chinua Achebe and I remembered his fame, what came to my mind was the joke about a certain woman, in her tribute to a departed...
View ArticleNGF: The victor and the vanquished
Last week Friday, when the drama and controversy that characterised the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) election unfolded, my article, entitled: Govs on trial in NGF election, published four weeks ago,...
View ArticleEpistle to the Nigerian Church
If there is any verse or two that directly captures the substance of a new book by Bishop Humphrey Erumaka, ERA OF ERRORS: Rumbling in the Temple, which I happen to have reviewed, it will probably be...
View ArticleSpirit of June 12 crying in the wilderness
On Wednesday, when some Nigerians marked the 20th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential, which was conducted and annulled by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida, it was obvious...
View ArticleThe magic of single tenure
Going by things that happen in Nigeria, it’s obvious that history always repeats itself. Many things the country has passed through and many issues that have been examined and considered in the...
View ArticleRe: The magic of single tenure
Today, we publish some of the readers’ reactions to my last week’s article with the above headlines. They want to stop Jonathan in 2015 Why did you omit the fact that Dr. Reuben Abati also stated that...
View ArticleWaiting for New PDP govs at Ochanja Market
It does seem that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has murdered sleep and, therefore, would sleep no more. Whether it’s the Main PDP or the New PDP, what is obvious is that no member of the political...
View ArticleBefore we nail Stella Oduah to the cross
For Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, this is certainly not the best of times. In the last couple of weeks, this woman, who could pass for one of the stars in President Goodluck Jonathan’s...
View ArticleWarning to PDP! Watch out, APC is coming!
A few moths ago, when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registered the All Progressives Congress (APC), an amalgam of three political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had,...
View ArticleRe: Anambra guber election and history
One week to the Anambra election, precisely on November 8, I did write an article, wherein I analysed the possible outcome of the exercise, taking into consideration what I saw on ground. In the...
View ArticleMandela: There was a man
When the news of former South African President, Nelson Mandela, broke late in the night, last week Thursday, one of my colleagues had exclaimed: Oh, he has died at last. As a journalist, I understood...
View ArticleUnsolicited advice to Mu’azu
Last week, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did what, in my thinking, it ought to have done months ago. The political party eventually summoned courage to ask its former National Chairman,...
View ArticleRe: Lesson Nigeria must learn from Turkey
We won’t tolerate distractions Since you fear so much for what happened in Turkey, would you then prefer the president stops prosecution of corruption because corruption is fighting back? Boko Haram,...
View ArticleAmnesty programme and good news from Niger Delta
When the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua unfolded the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2009, for the Niger Delta, not many Nigerians saw the wisdom in it. At that time, when Niger Delta militants...
View ArticleWike in the eyes of the editors
Prior to the last general elections, one of the issues some people, who wanted to provoke sentiment in Rivers State made so much fuss about was the takeover of government by an Ikwerre man from another...
View ArticleMore taxes in season of economic recession
At last, the Federal Government admitted what everybody knew, concerning the state of the country’s economy: Nigeria is in the depth of recession. The frightening aspect is not just that there is...
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