Prelude To My Riposte To Mr. Aikpokpo-Martins’ Advocacy To “Crush” All Agitations For Self-Determination In Nigeria.

Igboho, Kanu, Kimathi and betrayals on the Kenyan soil, By Festus Adedayo

Buhari is deepening a typecast that he is creating an amoral and self-centred leadership. Most likely because of the international implications of incriminating Kenya again, judging by its ignoble pedigree as a land of serial betrayals, the Buhari government has kept sealed lips on the identity of the African nation that played Judas in the…

Reflections on the man Nnamdi Kanu, By Gloria Ogo

Yesterday I announced that I would unveal my thoughts regarding the IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu. Several people reached out, advising me to be neutral and steer clear of political discourse. They meant well for a young female writer with a reputation to protect, an image to project, and the care not to cause offense. I…

ON THE REARREST OF NNAMDI KANU

By Benson Onuoha I will try as much as I can to look at this issue not as an Igbo but as a human. The rearrest of Nnamdi Kanu has caused so much grief to many people who believe he's fighting for a just course; to those who believe his method is wrong although he's…

The cats in Igboho’s house, By Lasisi Olagunju

IT was in Hubert Ogunde’s ‘Jayesinmi’ that we last saw witches transforming into cats – black cat, red cat. I never knew witchery and witchcraft have found their way into the curricula of our security academies until the recent Igboho night experience. Media reports said Sunday Igboho had cats as pets and those were victims…

1999 Constitution: How Abdulsalami Abubakar used Nikki Tobi, Auwalu Yadudu to defraud Nigerians – Uma Eleazu (1)

Many Nigerians have complained that the 1999 Constitution does not reflect the will of the Nigerian people. But what most people do not know is the extent General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the then head of state, went in shortchanging fellow citizens. Dr. Uma Eleazu, the 91-year-old economist, political scientist, administrator par excellence, who served in the…

Ghana’s 560km rail to cost for $2bn — same as 156km Lagos-Ibadan

China Railways Construction Corporation (CRCC) has offered to rehabilitate and construct a 560-kilometre standard gauge railway line for Ghana at $2 billion. Advertisement This costs just $500 million more than the 156-kilometre Lagos-Ibadan railway line being constructed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) — although Ghana’s project more than THRICE the size of…

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Features

Buhariplomacy of Abductions and Killing Nigeria Softly: from Diplomatic Bagaging to Invasion Diplomacy

INTERNATIONAL Bola A. Akinterinwa PMB is governing Nigeria as a military dictator, often forgetting that he was elected, and therefore compelled to always seek the understanding of democratic implications of whatever policy decisions he takes in international relations. His attitudinal disposition in Nigeria’s foreign policy is what we have always called buhariplomacy and this dates…

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The British, Nigeria and the ‘Mistake of 1914’, By Eric Teniola

I have just finished reading a book What Britain Did To Nigeria by Max Siollun, who is an authority on issues that affects Nigeria. Mr Siollun has written several books on the country, including Soldiers of Fortune: Nigeria Politics from Buhari to Babangida and Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years. Expectedly his latest book, What Britain Did To…

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Restructuring: The Road Not Taken (1)

By Tony Eluemunor Why would a cancer-stricken man beg a doctor to treat only a sore on his toe, if he is not suicidal? I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when government spokesmen gloated that it had taken our security agencies two whole years of strenuous and coordinated effort to ensnare and grab…

July 5, 20210Comments