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Being a good governor in Nigeria does not translate into national electability. Competence, prudence, integrity, accountability, even visionary governance count for almost nothing at the national level. Nigeria rewards power alignment, patronage infrastructure and ethnic arithmetic. Politics, not performance, is the currency of ascension. Anyone who has done the political math with cold honesty will
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There is something deeply unsettling in the political behaviour of the Southeast at this historical moment. At the very time when geopolitical logic, rotation arithmetic, national appetite for fairness, and bare constitutional equity all align in favour of a Southeast presidency in 2027, a segment of Eastern leaders, especially those of APC extraction, are openly
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A Coordinated Revisionist Push Is Underway. A new wave of information warfare has emerged across Nigeria’s political and media space attempting to recast a complex geopolitical event, the U.S. Christmas Day airstrikes in Sokoto and Nigeria’s redesignation as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC), as the fault of Ndi Igbo. In this narrative, Igbo activism,
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Nigeria’s democratic experiment since 1999 has unfolded against a backdrop of enormous promise repeatedly undermined by leadership choices that failed to convert opportunity into durable national progress. The Fourth Republic emerged with high public expectations after decades of military rule, endowed with abundant natural resources, a large and youthful population, and renewed global goodwill. Yet
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On the 15th of January 2020 Senator Hope Uzodinma was sworn in as Governor of Imo State under circumstances that will remain part of the country’s political folklore for decades. Six years later the passions and acrimony of that transition have cooled sufficiently for Imolites, observers and analysts to soberly examine the journey so far
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The headlines are back and the scapegoat is familiar. Suddenly, Trump has re-designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, airstrikes have landed in Sokoto, Washington has reactivated its interest in our security architecture, and like clockwork a section of the commentariat has begun whispering the same tired accusation: it is the Igbo. It is
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Christmas Day 2025 will not be remembered in Nigeria for carols or feasts. It will be remembered as the day U.S. Reaper drones fired guided munitions into the forests of Sokoto, flattening several Islamic State cells and launching a new and unsettled moment in West African geopolitics. What began as Donald Trump’s angry broadside on
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When KPMG Nigeria released its technical review of the new federal tax laws, it did not mince words. The firm identified thirty one critical problem areas that fall under drafting flaws, conceptual contradictions, institutional gaps, and compliance impossibilities. The issues were so fundamental that private meetings were convened with the National Revenue Service to acknowledge
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Imo is almost fifty years old. A child of the 1976 state creation exercise, carved out of the old East Central State, it came into the federation with some of the brightest human capital in Nigeria and a reputation for hard work, education and enterprise. Yet if we are honest with ourselves as Ndi Imo,
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The rush to celebrate the supposed fall of Iran and the end of radical Islam reveals more about Western propaganda than about the lived realities of Iranians or the broader Middle East. The current protests in Iran are real and deeply rooted in age-long carefully engineered western and Israeli destabilisation schemes, they are also rooted
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In the high-stakes theater of Nigerian politics, what appears to be a bitter rivalry is often a carefully choreographed dance. As we approach the next electoral cycle, a compelling and increasingly credible assumption is taking hold. As a political Strategist, and based on my personal insight, the 2027 race is being shaped by a presumably
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ARE MAJORITY OF NIGERIANS INDEED COWARDS OR WHAT ? Happy Sunday, Dear Suffering Nigerians !!! “The real danger before Nigeria is not simply authoritarian ambition, but collective surrender. A nation is disgraced not only by the crimes of its leaders, but by the resignation of its people and the silence of its moral guides.” As
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Nigeria is not a country moved by emotions, wishes or entitlement. It is powered by strategy, timing and cold political arithmetic. Power goes to those who organize for it, not those who merely deserve it. Every region that has tasted the presidency understood this reality and acted accordingly. The Southeast is the only region still
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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Update: President Trump Defines the “Drug Cartels” as “Terrorists” In December 2019, President Donald Trump offered to intervene in Mexico, i.e. “to go after the Drug Cartels”. The Mexican president turned down Trump’s generous offer. And then President Trump confirmed that his administration was considering categorizing “drug cartels” as “terrorists”, akin to Al Qaeda
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Nigeria is drifting through a storm it barely understands. Empires are reshaping the future with missiles and sanctions while we argue about subsidies, ethnicity, and who takes over the Government House in 2027. We do not see that the chessboard has already moved. We do not see that sovereignty is being redrawn not by treaties
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A recent survey conducted by an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan opinion research think-tank known as Africa Polling Institute (API) showed that between 79% to 83% of Nigerians expressed little or no trust in the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Executive, National Assembly, and the Judicial arms of government. The report, launched at a national dialogue in
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The world just changed on January seven. America did not simply withdraw from sixty six global bodies for administrative convenience. It formally declared that the liberal world order is dead and that it will not submit to any institution it does not control. That was the announcement. Quiet. Clinical. Brutal. For eighty years the United
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There is a troubling silence creeping through Owerri Zone of the All Progressives Congress as Imo State inches toward the 2027 governorship election. It is not the silence of strategy. It is the silence of hesitation, self doubt and political fear. In Imo politics silence is rarely neutral. It either signals a deal being stitched
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Nigeria sits on a mountain of wealth and yet behaves like a pauper in a hostile marketplace. Few countries on earth combine oil, gas, gold, bitumen, coal, iron ore, limestone, tin, zinc, bauxite and lithium in one territory. Lithium alone is rapidly becoming the new oil of the 21st century. Nigeria has billions of dollars
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Let us stop pretending. Nigeria’s economic crisis is no longer about policy mistakes or reform pains. It is about official dishonesty — the deliberate promotion of a success story that millions of starving citizens know to be false. This government is not merely out of touch. It is talking down to a suffering population. THE
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Nigeria is standing at the most dangerous political crossroads since the civil war. What is unfolding today is not accidental, not organic, and not unprecedented. It follows a familiar pattern that Nigerians have seen before, but this time with deadlier tools, weaker institutions, deeper hardship and far higher international stakes. In 2013, APC was engineered
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Joseph, my 20-year-old relative, lives in my country home in the village. Joseph is unmarried, has no children, lives rent-free, works in my gardens, and ensures a human presence in my village house. For this, he earns N75,000 a month, while working on getting admitted into a tertiary institution to further his studies. Stories like
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History does not repeat itself. It signals. And when empires feel threatened, they stop explaining and start enforcing. What unfolded around Venezuela is not about drugs. It is not about terrorism. It is not about democracy. Those are slogans for television. This is about money, power, and a global system built on force pretending to
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What is happening to Venezuela is not an accident, not mismanagement, not ideology gone wrong and certainly not humanitarian concern. It is a textbook operation. A deliberate, multi decade project of economic strangulation designed to collapse a sovereign state from the inside while blaming the victim for the damageinflicted upon it. Venezuela sits on the
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Something profoundly dangerous is happening beneath the surface of Nigeria. It is not happening in foreign policy circles or think tanks alone. It is happening in beer parlours, WhatsApp groups, diaspora forums, elite drawing rooms and street corners. Ordinary Nigerians and even sections of the educated elite have begun to openly fantasise about foreign intervention.
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The United States does not invade countries because it needs their oil to survive. That is a child’s reading of empire. The United States invades or destabilises countries to control energy flows, market access, pricing power, trade alignment, currency settlement, and geopolitical loyalty. Control is leverage. Leverage is power. Venezuela sits on the largest proven
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The reported US strike on Venezuela this morning is not an isolated event nor a sudden eruption of American impatience. It is the culmination of a century long struggle between Venezuelan sovereignty and Washington’s determination to dominate strategic resources in the Western Hemisphere. To understand the legitimacy or otherwise of the action, one must step
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The reported US strike on Venezuela this morning is not an isolated event nor a sudden eruption of American impatience. It is the culmination of a century long struggle between Venezuelan sovereignty and Washington’s determination to dominate strategic resources in the Western Hemisphere. To understand the legitimacy or otherwise of the action, one must step
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What happened in Venezuela is not diplomacy gone wrong. It is power speaking plainly. It is the sound of empire reminding the world that rules are negotiable when interests are large enough and resistance is inconvenient. The United States did not wake up this morning suddenly worried about democracy in Caracas. It did not suddenly
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What we are witnessing is not random attention and it is not sudden concern for Nigeria. It is a familiar geopolitical pattern that emerges whenever a strategically important state begins to drift toward rival power blocs while remaining internally vulnerable. Nigeria today fits that description almost perfectly. Deepening engagement with China, renewed institutional cooperation with
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Amen is far older and deeper than many people realise. It is not a Christian invention, nor is it merely a ritual ending to prayers. It is a linguistic seal of truth, agreement, and alignment. Meaning and origins Amen comes from ancient Hebrew, rooted in the word ’aman, which means to be firm, reliable, faithful,
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On Christmas Day, the United States carried out airstrikes against terrorist targets in Sokoto State, marking a disturbing escalation in Nigerias long running security crisis. The strikes were announced by Donald Trump, who accused Islamic State linked groups, including Boko Haram factions, of mass killings and vowed continued action. US Africa Command later confirmed that
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OBLONG MEDIA UNLIMITED – OP-ED Sokoto and the Sound of a Broken Sovereignty When American jets struck terrorist targets in Sokoto, it was not the explosion that shook Nigeria. It was the silence that followed in Abuja. A foreign power carried out a kinetic military operation on Nigerian soil.The announcement did not come first from
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Nigeria is not collapsing. Neither is it reforming. What the country is experiencing is something more deliberate, more controlled, and ultimately more dangerous: a managed breakdown. Living standards deteriorate, institutions weaken, and public trust erodes, yet the system remains stable enough to endure. Pain is normalised. Expectations are lowered. And power is preserved. This moment
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An Oblong Media Unlimited Global Situation Report. Written in the spirit of TIME, but without the euphemisms. INTRODUCTION: THE YEAR THE MASKS FELL By early 2026, the world had crossed an invisible line.Not because a single war ended.Not because inflation vanished.Not because leaders suddenly became honest. But because pretence finally became impossible to sustain. The
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“Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the country. At least they will steal only bananas”. That old line lands harder in Nigeria today than when it was first muttered in frustration. It is no longer satire. It is an observation wrapped in laughter to dull the pain. Every election cycle, every scandal, every budget
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An Oblong Media Unlimited report building on earlier Oblong Media analyses on fiscal federalism and the capture of local government resources. President Bola Tinubu has moved the long running dispute over local government finances into the open, warning state governors that he may issue an executive order and enforce direct FAAC deductions if they continue
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An Oblong Media Unlimited Report Moscow has introduced a new and highly consequential political variable into the Ukraine war. One that ties military restraint directly to electoral legitimacy. Speaking this week, President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia would consider halting deep strikes inside Ukraine on the very day a presidential election is held, provided certain
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The Political Year: Power Plays, Personalities, and the Long March to 2027 An Oblong Media Unlimited outlook By 2026, Nigeria will be living inside politics. Governance, policy choices, defections, and even silence will be read through one lens only: who controls 2027. This is the year when masks drop, alliances harden, and ambition becomes open.
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Before senatorial zones, before zoning bargains, before military shortcuts, oil calculations and administrative gymnastics, territorial identity in Eastern Nigeria followed a clear and logical order. That order was colonial administration with all its known and understandable imperfections. Under that system, Ohaji, Egbema and Oguta sat firmly within the Owerri administrative universe, alongside territories that extended
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A Legal and Economic Critique of Systemic Monopoly Power under the FCCPA, 2018. By Charles Ude Esq. Introduction: This paper examines the legal and economic implications of monopoly power and abuse of dominance within Nigeria’s competition law framework. It interrogates the emerging dominance of the Dangote Group across strategic sectors of the Nigerian economy, most
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For more than two decades, Imo State has carried a peculiar political burden. Since the return to civil rule in 1999, no sitting governor has managed to determine who succeeds him. Each outgoing administration has tried, and each has failed. Not because succession is impossible in theory, but because Imo politics has proven uniquely hostile
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In Nigeria’s long and troubled democratic journey, one debate keeps resurfacing whenever elections approach or appointments are made: should governance and representation be driven by experience or by character? While experience has its place, Nigeria’s lived reality increasingly shows that character, not experience, is the more decisive requirement for leadership in today’s political environment. Nigeria
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A Life of Grace, Grit, Wanderings, Reinvention and Destiny On Tuesday, 16 December 2025, I stand on the sixth floor of life. Sixty years, preserved not by chance, not by strength alone, but by the unmistakable, omnipotent grace of the Almighty Architect of the Universe. This is not merely a birthday.It is a testimony. I
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“That his line will continue forever and endure before Me like the sun.”Psalm 89:36 As I stand on the threshold of my 60th birthday, stepping boldly into the sixth floor by the grace of the Almighty Architect of the Universe, this verse resonates with a depth I can no longer ignore. It is not just
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Bienvenue au Sixième Étage. 16•12•2025 On the 16th of December 2025, I, Hon. Duruebube Chima ‘Oblong’ Nnadi-Oforgu, will step boldly into the Sixth Floor. A new chapter. A higher realm. A milestone carved not by mere years, but by battles fought, storms survived, destinies shaped, and divine grace overflowing. This is not just a birthday.It
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Mobutu Sese Seko’s rise in Zaire was anchored on the construction of a powerful cult personality, where he projected himself as the “Messiah of Zaire,” “The All-Knowing Leader,” and the embodiment of national destiny. Similarly, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political machinery has cultivated a growing aura of cult worship, symbolized by the “Emilokan” doctrine, mandatory
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A Testimony of Survival, Discipline, and Divine Mercy (Oblong @ 60 – Lecture Series, as I Approach the Sixth Floor) As I approach my 60th birthday, the sixth floor by God’s grace, I have spent considerable time pondering how best to thank God for sparing my life, and how to give a proper advisory testimony
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HERE IS THE ANALYSIS: Northern Nigeria has 19 states and 19 governors. Out of these, 10 governors are Fulanis, while the remaining 9 governors represent over 300 other ethnic groups in the region. Now, consider this:The Hausa ethnic group, with a population of over 66 million according to World Atlas—that’s over 55% of the entire
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INTRO: THE TRUTH NOBODY WANTS TO SAY ALOUD. From the moment Fredrick Lugard forcibly stitched Nigeria together in 1914, one ethnic group has poured its sweat, genius, mobility, enterprise, and blood into keeping this artificial creation alive.Ndi Igbo. While others stood still, we moved.While others debated identity, we built cities.While others feared the new Nigeria,
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As we grow older, life quietly teaches us a bitter but necessary truth: not every friend you started with is meant to journey with you to the end. Some relationships enrich you. Others drain you. And a dangerous few lurk in the grey zone, smiling in your presence, bitter in your absence, and secretly waiting
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Politics in Nigeria is a battlefield of perception, where reputation, influence, and propaganda intertwine. Within this often turbulent arena, Senator Hope Uzodinma, the Executive Governor of Imo State, has risen as a complex, consequential figure whose political evolution mirrors the transformation underway in Imo itself. Yet beyond the politics, beyond the battles and rivalries, something
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Colonial Nigeria was marked by its own policies of racial segregation. Ikoyi was an epitome of this: it was designated as “European reservations” and reserved for white officials and businessmen. Nigerians were not allowed to live there. The MacGregor Canal was built, in part, to separate Ikoyi from the rest of Lagos. Public facilities and
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For years, Nigeria’s spiralling violence, especially in the Middle Belt, has been framed almost exclusively through the lens of religion. Recent assessments by the U.S. Congress amplify this perspective, presenting the crisis as a campaign of Christian persecution. While this interpretation captures part of the truth, it fails to grasp the deeper, more decisive forces
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For decades, Nigeria has wrestled with the temptation to frame every national crisis through the lens of religion. Analysts, politicians, and commentators often reach for religious explanations because they appear familiar, emotive, and ready-made. But reducing Nigeria’s escalating insecurity to a “religious war” is not only misleading, it obscures the far deeper, more dangerous forces
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For decades, Nigerians have been deliberately miseducated. Many genuinely believe that anti-Igbo hostility began in 1966.That is false. Extremely false. Historically dangerous. The truth, hidden, buried, and whitewashed, is that the slaughter of Easterners began long before independence, long before the coups, and long before Biafra. Let us pull back the curtain. 1. THE FIRST
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THE SHADOW SYNDICATE: How Nigeria’s Governments Became Too Compromised to Name Terror Sponsors, From Jonathan to Buhari to Tinubu Foreword This article is an expanded, updated and heavily enriched version of my earlier investigations dating back to 2017, when Nigeria was drowning under the insecurity, corruption, and internal betrayal of the Buhari administration. Regrettably, more
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“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 (NKJV) PROPHETIC REVELATIONS AND NATIONAL WARNINGS Trump is displeased with Nigeria’s move toward BRICS because Nigeria is Africa’s largest market; joining BRICS threatens the dominance of the US dollar. He
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Senator Hope Uzodimma’s trajectory in Nigerian politics has been one of steady ascent, strategic positioning, and undeniable influence, culminating in his emergence as arguably the most powerful and top-ranking Igbo politician in this political dispensation. His latest appointment by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu further cements that status. President Tinubu has named Imo state Governor Senator
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Why This article Matters, And Why Now. This article is not merely a narrative of political activism; I have tried my best to break it down as much as I can to aid readability and understanding. it is a chronicle of a people’s trauma, resistance, and survival in a country that has treated them with
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There is a slow-burning crisis in Nigeria that rarely makes headlines, yet it is more dangerous than inflation, insecurity, or corruption. It is the frightening tendency of seemingly educated Nigerians to abandon rational thinking and collapse into emotion, sentiment, and ideological indoctrination at the slightest provocation. I first observed it during heated debates about Gaza.
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How Nigeria’s Internal Failures, American Geopolitics, and Hidden Sponsors Brought Us to the Brink, And Why Vigilance, Strategy, and Exposure Must Be Our Next Weapons There is a dangerous storm gathering over Nigeria. A storm fed by half a century of unresolved injustice in the East, a decade of escalating jihadist violence in the North,
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Nigeria did not wake up one morning to find IPOB on the streets. Nigeria created the conditions. Nigeria watered the soil, planted the seeds, and nurtured the roots of a crisis that has now lasted decades. To understand the burning wounds of the Southeast today, you must first walk through the ashes of yesterday, the
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Why the World Is Alarmed, Why the Center Can No Longer Hold, and Why National Re-negotiation Has Become Urgently Unavoidable. There comes a moment in the life of every nation when reality refuses to be masked by propaganda, by the empty chants of “one Nigeria,” or by the forced optimism of a political class feeding
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A NATION BUILT ON DEMOGRAPHIC FICTION. Nigeria’s census crisis did not begin today. It is not a modern accident. It was engineered, deliberately, strategically, and with ruthless colonial precision, by the British long before independence. Every nation must confront its historical truths. Nigeria, unfortunately, has spent decades running away from one of its most dangerous
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Who is really paying for Nigeria’s bloodbath? We talk endlessly about “terrorists”, “Fulani herdsmen”, “bandits”, “unknown gunmen” – as if they are ghosts who appear from thin air, armed to the teeth, fuelled, fed and endlessly resupplied by magic. They are not ghosts. They are funded. And the sponsors are not barefoot militants in the
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This article is an edited, expanded and fully updated version of an investigative piece I first published in 2017, at the height of the insecurity, confusion, and national hopelessness that characterised the Buhari administration. At that time, Nigeria was engulfed in violence and uncertainty, and many of the warning signs we highlighted were ignored, dismissed,
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Prof Chidi Osuagwu of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, at this year’s Ezumezu Lecture, a colloquium organized by the Obowu Development Association (Federated), on the 16th of August, in Obowo, discuses identity crisis with its debilitating effects in Africa and Nigeria. In his paper entitled Obowu Identity. Recovery and Rectification in Post-invasion
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A lot happens in Nigeria that, if you did not witness it yourself, you would swear it was impossible. Some events are so bizarre, so grotesque in their violation of common sense and morality, that even D.O. Fágúnwà’s magical adventures in Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbo Elegbeje pale beside them. Yet these are not tales from another
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When you visit an ECD school in Zimbabwe today, it’s a beautiful sight. You’ll see tiny kids running around in colorful uniforms black and white children, same classrooms, same toys, same lunchboxes. At that level, there is no race, only innocence. Move up to primary school same thing. Black and white pupils still sit together,
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A Revealing Exposé for Viral Effect – From the Stable of Oblong Media. There is a frightening truth lurking beneath the surface of Ala Igbo, one so uncomfortable, so deeply rooted, and so dangerously ignored that many prefer to pretend it does not exist. But reality does not disappear because a people are afraid to
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In every society, leadership carries a sacred responsibility that goes beyond titles and public appearances. True leadership requires speaking boldly when circumstances demand clarity and direction. When leaders remain silent in moments of crisis, their silence does not stay neutral. Silence becomes a message on its own, and often that message communicates approval, weakness, or
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For those of us that are 50 years old and above and who had the privilege to live in Owerri during our growing up, life in the old school days was sweeter, more secured and more loving than what obtains today. Some times when I take a retrospective look at when we grew up in
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Good governance is not always loud. Sometimes, it works best in silence. Governor Hope Uzodinma may not have the most likeable personality or the loudest megaphone, but if you take a closer look, you will see his fingerprints on real structural shifts happening across Imo. If sustained, this model could make Imo the economic anchor
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Nigeria’s political landscape is loud, complex, and often divided along emotional, sentimental and ethnic lines. Yet, in the midst of this fragmentation, one man from the East is quietly stitching together a new national fabric.His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, CON., has emerged as the most strategic bridge-builder the East has produced in recent memory.
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The Trump administration is dangerously misreading the conflict and its causes. In less than 48 hours, President Donald Trump went from announcing that he would designate Nigeria a “country of particular concern,” a State Department label that admonishes countries that fail to protect religious freedom, to announcing that he was preparing a military intervention to
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The recent Prime Business Africa piece (“ISIS Dares Trump: ‘Act On Christian Genocide!’,” 8 Nov 2025) highlights ISIS propaganda about attacking Christians and tries to box U.S. policy into that frame. It doesn’t provide casualty data or a full victim profile of ISIS violence. Treat it as a rhetorical provocation, not a statistical account. Nigerians,
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Once again, the merchants of moral sermon from across the Atlantic have mounted their pulpit, wagging fingers and quoting scripture about “religious freedom” in Nigeria, as if Washington suddenly found a conscience between its drone strikes and regime-change escapades. Now, Nigeria is being told it’s on the CPC blacklist, accused of “religious persecution.” Oh, how
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I am not engaging in rhetoric or supporting or opposing, as many Nigerians are doing right now. I want to present the facts I have gathered through research and personal investigation. I spent forty-five years in the political space of Nigeria, serving as an elected member of the Federal House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal
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When you look closely at what is going on, you begin to see the pattern. The same people who cried “genocide against white farmers in South Africa” are now crying “Christian persecution in Nigeria.” And just like before, the goal is not compassion, it is control. It is about using religion and fear to justify
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In 2015, Sudan’s then-president Omar al-Bashir made a shocking claim, that the CIA and Mossad were behind ISIS and Boko Haram. The Western press dismissed it as delusional rambling from a man accused of war crimes. Yet, nearly a decade later, pieces of that puzzle are fitting disturbingly well. What if Nigeria’s endless insecurity is
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I will continue to sound the warning to Nigerians. Despite the apparent Christian persecution narrative being promoted internationally, what we face in Nigeria today is a national insecurity crisis that knows neither tribe nor religion. It cuts across regions, driven by economics, politics, and power struggles, not purely faith. The tragedy is national, and addressing
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Politics in Nigeria is a battlefield of perception, where reputation, influence, and propaganda intertwine. Within this often turbulent arena, Senator Hope Uzodinma, the Executive Governor of Imo State, has risen as a complex and consequential figure whose political journey mirrors the evolution of modern Nigerian politics. From Senator to Strategist Before his emergence as governor,
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It is time Nigerians stopped taking every foreign pronouncement as gospel truth and began to read between the lines. Too many times, we have watched the same script play out, only the stage changes. The same voices that now pretend to be saviours were the ones who once stood aside while our people bled. In
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For over a decade, Nigeria has been trapped in a vicious cycle of bloodshed, from the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast, to the farmer-herder conflicts ravaging the Middle Belt, to the killings and abductions now spreading into the Southeast.Yet when one looks beyond the headlines and propaganda, a clearer picture emerges: our security crisis
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“The recent U.S. talk of invading Nigeria under the guise of fighting bandits and protecting Christians hides a deeper geopolitical agenda, to roll back China’s influence, check France’s growing presence, and reassert America’s dominance in Africa.” America’s “Nigeria Option”: The Real Agenda Behind the Headlines When the Americans suddenly start talking about “invading Nigeria to
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Good governance is not always loud. Sometimes, it works best in silence. Governor Hope Uzodinma may not have the most likeable personality or the loudest megaphone, but if you take a closer look, you will see his fingerprints on real structural shifts happening across Imo. If sustained, this model could make Imo the economic anchor
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For years, Nigerians have been told half-truths about port development, dredging costs, and economic feasibility. But a closer look reveals something more sinister: a deliberate, well-orchestrated strategy to centralize Nigeria’s maritime economy around Lagos, keeping the South-South and South-East perpetually dependent, economically stifled and logistically marginalised. As the multi-billion-dollar Lekki Deep Sea Port surges toward
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The shocking testimonies about killings, ritual desecrations, and mass bravado cannot be read in isolation. To understand how young men came to commit such crimes, we must first follow the chain of events that pushed them deep into the shadows. For years a pattern of heavy-handed federal operations, selective prosecution, and public spectacles of arrest,
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In a world where love and friendship are just a click away, it is easy to forget that not too long ago, the search for companionship required a great deal of patience, creativity, and effort. From pen pals to Facebook, the journey of human connection has taken many forms, each shaped by the technology and
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It is time for Nigerians to confront an inconvenient truth: presidential leadership from the North–Southwest political duopoly has woefully failed our nation. Far from producing a utopia of shared prosperity, unity, and security promised decade after decade, it has instead delivered economic ruin, mass poverty, and social decay. This failure is not because the North
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The 30th of August 2017 will remain etched in the political history of the South East as a day when a peaceful path was still possible. On that day, statesmen like Alex Ekwueme, former Vice President of Nigeria, and Ben Nwabueze, SAN, prevailed upon Nnamdi Kanu to reconsider his hardline stance on outright secession. It
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Across Africa, the winds of change are beginning to stir. In Madagascar, disillusioned youths have taken to the streets in defiance of a corrupt and unresponsive government, demanding reform, accountability, and a future worth living for. The protests, sparked by crippling water and electricity shortages, quickly transformed into a broader movement against systemic corruption and
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When U.S. Senator Ted Cruz declared that “Officials in Nigeria are ignoring and even facilitating the mass murder of Christians by Islamist jihadists,” he did not invent a new accusation, he merely amplified a truth that Nigerians themselves have long whispered, lamented, and, in some cases, publicly confessed. Yet, the fury that greeted his statement
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Angela Merkel’s recent revelation about how Poland and the Baltic states sabotaged her attempt to negotiate with Russia in 2021 is perhaps one of the most striking confessions to emerge from Europe’s political class since the onset of the Ukraine conflict. It exposes a deep fracture within the European Union and a dangerous undercurrent of
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In the midst of one of the bloodiest assaults on Gaza in modern history, a controversial plan has quietly emerged, one that recasts Gaza not as a homeland under siege, but as prime real estate for global investors. Titled “The GREAT Trust: Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation,” the 38-page proposal envisions the total demolition
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There is palpable anxiety within opposition ranks over a chilling possibility, that the 2027 general election may once again be handed to the ruling APC on a platter, not because of superior strategy or governance, but because of the opposition’s chronic disunity, ego battles, and unending internal crises. The sense within the opposition camp is
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Cletus Ibeto’s charge is simple and incendiary: his cement was better and far cheaper than Dangote’s, but envy and political muscle, allegedly routed through President Olusegun Obasanjo, shut his factory down. He says if his plant were still running, no Nigerian would be paying today’s punishing prices; in his words, the market would never have
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In 1997, General Sani Abacha hosted Muammar Gaddafi in defiance of U.S. and UN sanctions, a daring Pan-African stand that shook Washington and symbolized Africa’s brief moment of strategic defiance. Here’s the untold story of that visit and the mysterious deaths that followed. A Bold Gesture of Defiance In 1997, while much of Africa bowed
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I came across a viral piece online calling for a permanent boycott of Air Peace and United Nigeria Airlines, accusing Allen Onyema and Obiora Okonkwo of “betrayal capitalism.” The argument is simple but incendiary: that these airlines, both Igbo-owned, exploit the desperation of Igbo travellers to return home during Christmas, charging fares six to eight
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