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There is a dangerous pattern in Nigerian discourse: when a people endure long structural exclusion, repeated political disappointment, and coordinated resistance to their national aspirations, they are blamed for their own condition. That pattern is now being applied, unfairly and inaccurately, to Ndi Igbo. Let us be clear. The Igbo are not “their own worst enemies.” They are one of the most resilient, productive, and forward driving populations in Nigeria and Africa. What they have faced since the civil war is not mere political competition. It is a layered mix of distrust, institutional caution toward their ascent, elite betrayal, and…
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The coming general elections are no longer shaping up as a routine contest between parties, personalities, or campaign slogans. They are steadily evolving into something deeper, a referendum on the structure, legitimacy, and long term viability of the Nigerian state itself. The unresolved national question that has lingered since independence is no longer dormant. It is now pressing, visible, and politically combustible. For decades, Nigeria’s governing elite has relied on managed adjustments instead of structural solutions. Whenever pressure builds, the response is familiar, elite pacts, zoning formulas, rotational arrangements, coalition deals, selective reforms, and temporary economic relief measures. These mechanisms…
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There is a remarkable new scientific discovery in modern governance: the more money labeled for security disappears into confidential envelopes, the more insecurity appears in public places. It is called the Phenomenon of Insecurity Votes, a mysterious fiscal condition where funds travel at the speed of light, but safety travels by bicycle with a flat tire. Experts are still studying how billions meant for protection develop a rare allergy to results, but early findings suggest the money feels safest when it never leaves the comfort of private ledgers. Welcome to the age of Advanced Budgetary Magic, where security votes are…
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The type of stomach infrastructure (bribe for vote patronage) being promoted by Nigerian politicians is a minus for the people and a disservice to future generations. This is because the opportunity cost is more poverty and the lack of comparable national competitiveness, as well as perennial dependency on foreign countries for food at the expense of local capability and the naira, which weakens with increased imports. Unfortunately, what is happening in Nigeria is not stomach infrastructure. It is poverty infrastructure, laying an indigent foundation that can only guarantee that the people will remain poor, beggarly and in squalor. There is…
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There is a moment in the life of every people when emotion must give way to strategy, and grievance must mature into organized, constructive purpose. For Ndi Igbo, that moment is now. Across Nigeria, the debate over the future of democracy is intensifying. Questions about electoral credibility, institutional independence, voter confidence, and political inclusion are no longer abstract. They are becoming survival questions for the federation itself. In this moment, Ndi Igbo must not sit on the sidelines, be divided by short term inducements, or be deployed against their own long term interests. We must enter the democratic conversation with…
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In politics, power normally seeks legitimacy. When a party controls the numbers, the institutions, and the map, it should logically be the loudest voice demanding transparent elections. That is why a troubling question now echoes across Nigeria’s political space and public square: if the ruling establishment already holds overwhelming structural power, why the hesitation around real time electronic transmission of election results? Let us look at the landscape as many citizens currently perceive it. The ruling party bloc commands about 82 of 109 Senators. It holds roughly 242 of 360 seats in the House of Representatives. It governs 30 of…
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Mr President, This is a respectful but urgent appeal in the national interest. Nigeria is approaching another critical election cycle under conditions of heightened distrust and political tension. At such a moment, every action taken by the executive and the legislature regarding electoral law carries consequences far beyond procedure. It carries consequences for peace, legitimacy, and national cohesion. Reports and debates surrounding proposed electoral amendments, especially those touching on the electronic transmission and real time upload of results, have triggered widespread public anxiety. Nigerians followed the reform consultations, hearings, and committee processes with the understanding that transparency safeguards would be…
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Nigeria stands again at a dangerous crossroads. The debate over electoral law reform and the method of transmitting election results is no longer a technical legislative matter. It is now a national stability issue. Any deliberate weakening of transparency safeguards, especially around real time electronic transmission and result collation, will not be seen by citizens as procedure. It will be seen as preparation for fraud. And in today’s tense political climate, that perception alone is combustible. Across the country, public trust in elections has already been badly eroded. Allegations of altered figures on polling unit result sheets, disputed collation processes,…
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Tinubu Isn’t Hiding It Anymore The Nigerian government is spending millions on lobbyists and PR firms in Washington and London. They’ve hired some of the best spin doctors money can buy. And I’ll give them this: they can muddy the waters about the terrorist massacres. They can repackage government failures as “security challenges.” They can trot out ambassadors with talking points about “farmer-herder conflict” and “climate-driven migration.” But there is one thing they cannot hide: the historic, aggressive, and ongoing effort to fully Islamize Nigeria by any means necessary. Not the violence. Not the body count. The structure. The laws.…
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Nigeria stands at a dangerous crossroads. What we are witnessing is not merely political competition or party dominance. It is the slow hollowing out of democratic substance while democratic rituals remain in place. Elections are held, offices are filled, parliaments sit, and courts pronounce. Yet many citizens increasingly feel that representation has become symbolic, outcomes predictable, and power insulated from accountability. That of course is not how democracy is supposed to function. Across the country, hardship has deepened and political behavior has hardened. Hunger, patronage, and survival politics now shape alignments more than ideology or policy. The politics of stomach…
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There is a warning written in African soil, and it comes from the long, tragic resource wars of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For decades, Congo has sat on immense mineral wealth, coltan, cobalt, gold, diamonds, the very elements that power modern electronics and today’s battery revolution. Instead of prosperity, that wealth attracted militias, foreign profiteers, illegal extraction networks, proxy armed groups, and endless civilian suffering. Villages were emptied. Territories were militarized. Extraction continued. The people paid the price. Congo teaches a brutal lesson: resource wars rarely begin as “resource wars.” They begin as banditry, communal clashes, cattle disputes,…
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A 50th Anniversary Historical Record for Posterity (Oblong Media Archive) Congrats, Imolites. Today marks a landmark in the political history of the old Eastern heartland. Imo State was birthed on February 3, 1976, and for the people who lived through that era, it was not just the announcement of a new name on the Nigerian map. It was the opening of a new administrative destiny, after years of post war rebuilding, identity negotiation, and intense lobbying in a Nigeria that was redefining itself. But let it be recorded for posterity: the creation of Imo State was not a case of…
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An investigative report. For more than a decade, Nigeria’s South East has existed in a disturbing paradox: a region officially at peace, yet governed as a conflict zone; constitutionally Nigerian, yet treated as a hostile frontier. What has unfolded is not merely a failure of security or an accidental breakdown of order. It is a pattern, deliberate, cumulative, and destabilizing, with profound consequences for youth radicalization, economic paralysis, and national cohesion. This report examines the architecture of that crisis. A Region Placed Under Siege In 2017, the federal government launched “Operation Python dance a military deployment presented as an internal…
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Nigeria is once again approaching an election cycle under a cloud of anxiety. With 2027 drawing closer, elite conversations are shifting from campaign slogans to structural questions, constitutional reform, federal balance, regional equity, resource control, and the deeper issue of whether the Nigerian union, as presently configured, is stable or merely suspended between crises. There is renewed noise around constitutional review as the magic wand that will preserve peace and hold the country together. Committees are being proposed. Dialogues are being announced. Conferences are being whispered about. The political class is repackaging restructuring language for a new electoral season. But…
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There are policy choices that are merely controversial. Then there are those that are consequential enough to redefine how a government is perceived, at home and abroad. The reported decision by the Katsina State Government to release about seventy suspected bandits and terror linked defendants under a so called peace arrangement belongs firmly in the second category. According to multiple reports, the state Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs forwarded lists containing dozens of suspects, including people already standing trial in various High Courts, to be freed as part of a negotiated settlement with armed groups operating across roughly…
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The much anticipated American strike on Iran that many analysts penciled in for early February did not happen. Troops were positioned, assets were moved, scenarios were rehearsed, and signals were deliberately leaked into the media bloodstream. Then, silence. No strike. No fireworks. Just a pause that confused hawks, relieved markets, and triggered a fresh wave of speculation. This was not weakness. It was not surrender. It was not reconciliation. It was a calculation. And at the heart of that calculation sits one uncomfortable truth for Washington and its allies: Iran is not a predictable adversary, and unpredictability is itself a…
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Most men see the penis only through the narrow lens of sexuality and performance. Medicine sees something broader and far more revealing. It is one of the most sensitive early warning indicators of overall male health. Not a symbol of masculinity alone, but a biological dashboard that reflects what is happening deep within the vascular, hormonal, neurological, and metabolic systems. An erection is not merely about attraction or stimulation. It is a complex systems event. It requires clean and flexible blood vessels, responsive nerves, balanced hormones, efficient nitric oxide production, stable sleep cycles, and a nervous system capable of entering…
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Since January 2025, Nigeria has quietly taken a decisive step onto the global stage as one of eight BRICS partner countries. The bloc already includes three African nations as full members, South Africa, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Should Nigeria be admitted as a full member, BRICS would encompass the three largest economies on the continent, dramatically strengthening Africas collective voice in South South cooperation and global economic governance. Nigeria is not a peripheral player. With a population exceeding 230 million people, it is Africas most populous country and the sixth most populous in the world. United Nations projections estimate this figure…
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The Deal Behind the Drama:Decoding the Power Calculations Shaping 2027. In Nigerian politics, enemies are rarely what they appear to be. What the public sees as rivalry is often negotiation. What looks like hostility is frequently choreography. Elections here are not always battles. Many times, they are arrangements carefully shaped long before campaign posters appear. The assumption is that President Tinubu is prepared to offer Atiku Abubakar 2031 in exchange for 2027. Central to this arrangement is the implicit promise of a state-backed pathway to the presidency in 2031, following Tinubu’s completion of his constitutionally permitted two terms. By signaling…
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Building a Functional Alaigbo Inside a Dysfunctional Nigeria If Abuja Won’t Build Alaigbo, Alaigbo Will Build Alaigbo Development in Alaigbo has been throttled for decades not by a lack of capacity, imagination or resources, but by an overdependence on federal permissions that never arrive. In a country where central approvals move at glacial speed, and sometimes not at all, waiting for Abuja has become a slow death sentence for regional infrastructure. Yet across the world, regions, provinces and city states in similar situations have learned how to unlock transformation under a hostile or indifferent central government simply by changing the…
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There is a long overdue conversation that Ndi Igbo must now confront. It is not a conversation about secession, flags, referendums or cartographic boundaries. It is a conversation about destiny, agency and civilization. A conversation about what the Igbo nation once represented before the tragedy of 1967 and what we can still become without waiting for permission from Nigeria or validation from any other people. Before the war, the Eastern Region did not waste time lobbying the federation for federal allocations, waivers, approvals and licenses. We did not await Abuja, Abuja did not exist. Rather we built a self sustaining…
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Before we fantasize about separation, restructuring or dissolution of Nigeria, let us ask a painful but necessary question: are the Igbos themselves ready Not emotionally. Not rhetorically. Not nostalgically. But structurally A people must be united in purpose before they can dream of exit. A nation that cannot move as one cannot break as one. This is where the Igbo dilemma sits painfully untouched. We are loud about marginalisation but quiet about preparation. We shout about Biafra but whisper about Biafra of the mind. We yearn for territory but we have not built cohesion. We speak of liberation while refusing…
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Today the world sit like fouls to watch all the drama towards the quest of who will control “Earth Minerals”. As someone in the technological world of invention and innovation we must confront entrenched interests and demand systemic change. But our technologies, our planet, and our shared future depend on getting this right. I stand for a path that recognizes the power of these minerals and wields it with responsibility, transparency and an unwavering commitment to repair the harms of the past. Resources beneath our feet truly become the building blocks of a better world. I have watched the world…
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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 not be shocked that Igbo politicians are folding themselves into the APC in search of survival, not glory. At the heart of it sits a brutal question: do the Igbo still believe in themselves as a political nation or have we quietly surrendered the collective…
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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 campaigning for a second term for President Tinubu. To the casual observer, this looks like ordinary partisanship. To those who understand political timing, it looks like collective suicide dressed as strategy. Let us ask the only question that matters: What exactly is Tinubu offering the…
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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, IPOB agitation, and even Peter Obi’s diplomatic visibility become the alleged triggers for American action against Nigeria. This is not organic. It is constructed. And like all constructed narratives, it has a target and an objective. But before accepting or rejecting claims, one must first…
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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 more than two decades later, Nigeria remains trapped in a cycle of economic fragility, institutional weakness, insecurity, and declining public trust.(A Nigerian Survey conducted recently by Africa Polling Institute (API),and supported by Ford Foundation which was released last week in Abuja showed that 83% of…
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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 and appreciate the imprint of his administration on the life of the state. The most visible and incontestable achievement of the past six years is in the roads sector. No post 1999 administration has committed more aggressively to road rehabilitation than the Uzodinma government. The…
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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 Biafra. They lobbied America against the system. This is the great Nigerian art of blame shifting. When the world finally asks why bodies are piling up in Benue, why Catholic priests are being abducted in Kaduna, why churches are being burned in Plateau, and why…
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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 Truth Social about the killing of northern and Middle Belt Christians quickly escalated into a supposedkinetic alliance between Washington and Abuja that few analysts saw coming and even fewer fully understand. The strikes hit sixteen confirmed targets across the northwest, according to Nigeria’s Information Ministry.…
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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 that the laws were either unimplementable, economically disruptive, or internally incoherent. KPMG Summary for Public Consumption. At its core, KPMG is making three broad arguments: One. The new tax laws are not ready and contain serious errors. Two. Even experts are struggling to interpret the…
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Imo is 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, the state today is operating at perhaps half of its real potential. The infrastructure, industry base, education system and public institutions we should have built by now exist only in fragments. The one era that still defines our imagination of what good governance can look like…
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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 in economics, governance and accountability, not in the collapse of a religion or the cartoonish geopolitical framing pushed by Western policy circles. If Iran falls today, it will not be because Islam failed or because Israel surgically removed the head of a snake. It will…
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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 secret understanding between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. This is not a merger of ideologies, but a cold, calculated “shadow pact” designed to preserve the status quo and neutralize the common threat: the disruptive candidacy of Peter Obi. This disruptive grand Architect…
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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 I sat on my office desk at the beginning of this new year, I was struck with sadness reflecting on a remark recently attributed to the current U.S. President Donald Trump on his X account, describing Nigeria as “a disgraced nation.” While the statement may…
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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 trying to negotiate destiny through sentiment while others negotiate through structure. For Ndi Igbo the question today is no longer whether we deserve the presidency. That debate has been exhausted for decades. The real question is how and when can it be achieved. And whether…
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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 –with the exception that they are “Catholic terrorists”. They would henceforth be designated by Washington as “foreign terrorist organizations”. In recent developments (January 2026) in the immmediate wake of the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, MAGA Donald Trump has announced that he now…
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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 but by airstrikes. The old rules are gone. The world has entered the age of raw power, and Africa is the soft underbelly of the planet. While Nigerians quarrel about zoning, restructuring and the price of fuel, the United States has begun to operate like…
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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 Abuja on Thursday, also computed the Nigeria Social Cohesion Index (NSCI) as 46.8%. This index is below the average score of 50 percentage points and indicates a weak state of social cohesion in Nigeria. According to a statement issued by API’s Executive Director, Professor Bell…
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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 States pretended to be the referee of the world. Now it wants to be a player again. And players do not obey referees. They break bones and chase trophies. That is why the military budget has exploded. That is why intelligence has been privatized. That…
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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 or a retreat already underway. What we are witnessing looks suspiciously like the latter. This should not be the case because 2027 is not just another election cycle. It is a historical test. It is the year Owerri Zone either breaks a longstanding jinx or…
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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 worth of it and China has not been slow to move. Since 2013 Chinese firms have invested over 1.3 billion dollars in lithium with an estimated national reserve valuation exceeding 34 billion dollars. Lithium is the lifeblood of electric vehicles, battery storage grids and the…
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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 BIG CON: WHEN STATISTICS BECOME A WEAPON Nigerians are told the economy is improving. Who exactly is improving? Certainly not the trader who can no longer restock goods. Not the civil servant whose salary is dead on arrival. Not the graduate roaming the streets jobless.…
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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 as a blunt instrument to upstage an incumbent that it claimed had exhausted public goodwill. It was a cold political calculation, not an ideological movement. ACN, CPC, ANPP and fragments of APGA and PDP were welded together into a single brutal electoral weapon. The objective…
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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 Joseph’s are common across Nigeria’s landscape but are rarely visible where policy is made. So at a tax explainer event with senior FIRS officers in Abuja, I asked whether Joseph would pay tax under the new tax regime which I call: “Bola’s Tax”. The answer…
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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 be finance. For over five decades, American dominance has rested on one invisible pillar. The petrodollar. Not aircraft carriers. Not alliances. Not moral authority. Oil priced in dollars and only dollars. When Venezuela moved to escape that trap, the punishment was swift and methodical. The…
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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 largest proven oil reserves on earth. Not in theory. Not politically. In hard geological fact. That single reality places it permanently in the crosshairs of American power. Every other argument is decoration. The United States does not tolerate independent control over strategic resources, especially when…
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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. Some now speak of Trump style shock therapy as salvation. Others whisper balkanisation as relief. This is not madness. It is despair. When a people begin to pray for invasion, it is a sign that the social contract has collapsed. Nigeria has been captured by…
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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 oil reserves on earth. That alone makes it intolerable as a sovereign actor that chooses its own partners, sells oil outside US oversight, or aligns economically with China and other non-Western powers. It does not matter that Venezuela currently produces less oil than it once…
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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 away from today’s headlines and examine the historical architecture that made such an act conceivable. Venezuela sits on the largest proven crude oil reserves on earth. Long before the Middle East became the centre of global energy politics, Venezuelan oil powered American industry, fuelled US…
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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 away from today’s headlines and examine the historical architecture that made such an act conceivable. Venezuela sits on the largest proven crude oil reserves on earth. Long before the Middle East became the centre of global energy politics, Venezuelan oil powered American industry, fuelled US…
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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 discover drugs, corruption or authoritarianism in Venezuela. Those labels are old tools, reused whenever a defiant state must be disciplined. What happened is the end point of a long campaign designed to break a country until intervention looks reasonable. Venezuela’s real crime is not misrule.…
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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 France, a worsening internal security crisis, elite fragmentation and economic stress have combined to place Nigeria firmly back on the radar of powerful external actors. The renewed interest of Donald Trump must first be understood through the lens of American domestic politics. Nigeria has been…
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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, or true. From this root come related Hebrew words meaning belief, trust, and certainty. When Amen is spoken, it literally means: So it is true So be it It is established I affirm this as reliable and trustworthyIn the Hebrew Bible, Amen was used as…
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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 the operations were conducted in coordination with Nigerian authorities. Regardless of how Abuja frames it, the symbolism is stark. Nigeria has reached a point where a foreign power feels confident enough to launch kinetic military operations on its soil. For a country that prides itself…
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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 the Nigerian government, the Nigerian military, or the Nigerian presidency. It came from Donald Trump loud, theatrical, deliberate. That single fact is where the problem begins. Not an airstrike. Astatement. The Sokoto strike was never just about killing terrorists. Terrorists have been killing Nigerians for…
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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 is routinely described as a period of “necessary sacrifice” on the road to renewal. Nigerians are told to endure hardship today for prosperity tomorrow. But the structure beneath the suffering tells a different story. The hardship is not transitional. It is structural. The central illusion…
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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 language of diplomacy no longer matches the reality on the ground. Institutions speak of order while chaos spreads. Governments speak of recovery while households count losses. The powerful speak of rules while breaking them openly. 2026 is the year humanity stopped arguing about what 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 padding revelation, every viral video of a public officer explaining the unexplainable forces a simple question on even the most patient citizens. How did we get here and why do people still defend this madness with religious devotion. We all know that friend. Educated. Articulate.…
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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 to frustrate the Supreme Court ruling granting financial autonomy to Nigerias third tier of government. The warning was delivered at the 15th National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress at the State House Conference Centre in Abuja. Speaking before governors and party leaders,…
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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 conditions are met. Chief among them is the participation of millions of Ukrainian citizens currently living inside Russia. This is not a ceasefire offer in the conventional sense. It is a political challenge wrapped in military leverage. The Core Russian Position According to the Kremlin,…
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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. The Incumbency Factor President Bola Ahmed Tinubu enters 2026 with the full weight and burden of incumbency. His administration frames the year as a consolidation phase, selling reform continuity, economic stabilization, and long term pain for long term gain. Supporters argue that subsidy removal, exchange…
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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 as far as Port Harcourt. Owerri Division and Owerri Province explained plainly. Much of todays confusion flows from a basic failure to separate Owerri Division from Owerri Province. Owerri Division was a local administrative unit used for courts, taxation and native authority control. Owerri Province…
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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 notably the downstream petroleum market,through the prism of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act (FCCPA), 2018. Particular attention is directed at the recent fuel price reductions announced by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery. While these reductions appear, at first glance, to offer immediate consumer relief,…
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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 to handovers that appear choreographed, arrogant, or poorly negotiated. From HE Achike Udenwa to HE Ikedi Ohakim and HE Rochas Okorocha, the pattern has been consistent: elite revolt, federal recalibration, party implosion, or popular backlash. In Imo, power does not flow neatly from one hand…
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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 is not short of experienced politicians. Many of those who have governed at federal, state and local levels have spent decades within the system. They understand how government works, how budgets are passed, how committees function and how power is negotiated. Yet, despite this abundance…
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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 was born at dawn on Thursday, 16 December 1965, at Whittington / St Marys Hospital, Islington, London, the first of 4 siblings to two exceptional parents: a disciplined, visionary telecommunications engineer and a compassionate, highly trained thoracic nurse. From birth, excellence surrounded me, but life…
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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 about a promise to David, it is about heritage, continuity, and the unbroken arc of destiny.It is about a life preserved, guided, protected, and uplifted by divine hands even in the darkest valleys.It is about a lineage that God Himself has sustained through storms, trials,…
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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 is a celebration of existence.A thanksgiving for a life lived under the unyielding watch of the Almighty God, the Eternal Architect who designed my path long before I took my first breath. MY STORY: FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO THE SIXTH FLOOR I came into this…
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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 initiation of people with compulsory wearing of jagaban’s cap with its insignia and the deliberate projection of Tinubu as the irreplaceable stabilizer of Nigeria. Both leaders used controlled narratives, loyalist propaganda, and media dominance to elevate personal prestige above institutional legitimacy, thereby shrinking critical inquiry…
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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 that does justice to His grace, mercy, and quiet miracles in my journey. I eventually came to this conclusion:My 60th birthday is not just a celebration of years; it is an altar of gratitude.A moment to tell my story plainly, truthfully, and reverently, so that…
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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 Northern population—has no single governor. All their states are ruled by Fulanis, who have a population of just 13 million, barely 11% of the Northern population. Nigeria is composed of three major ethnic groups: Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo with Hausas having the largest population. Yoruba…
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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, we invested our future into it. And yet, after 111 years of nation-building, the Igbo stand as the single group that has given the most to Nigeria and received the least in political reward, infrastructural equity, and national recognition. This is not sentiment.This is history.This…
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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 for the moment your shine unsettles their shadows. Human nature is complex, and nowhere is this complexity more visible than in friendship. The psychology of friendship reveals that envy, resentment, and insecurity are never far away when one person begins to rise, financially, socially, or…
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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 profound happened today, something that reminded us of who we are and what truly matters: Imo State is all we have.And for the first time in a long while, many of us felt an unmistakable sense of pride in being Imolite. A Turning Point: Imo…
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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 hotels were also racially segregated, with native Nigerians unable to access or use them. However, a seemingly minor incident happened at Bristol Hotel, Ikoyi, in 1947. It would spark a protest movement that nipped this evil in the bud and altered the course of Nigerian…
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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 driving the violence. Religion is present.Religion is weaponised.Religion shapes the language of terror. But religion is not the engine of this crisis. Behind the scenes lies a far more complex reality: a billion-dollar criminal enterprise centred on mineral extraction, political complicity, and geopolitical opportunism. Until…
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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 driving the violence. Behind the smoke of extremist rhetoric and the sensationalism of blasphemy mobs lies a cold, calculated, and highly profitable ecosystem of mineral extraction, political protection, criminal syndicates, and elite complicity. Nigeria’s insecurity is not fundamentally about religion. It is mostly about money,…
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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 POGROM: JOS, 1945 Yes, 1945. Twenty-one years before 1966. Easterners, overwhelmingly Igbo traders, artisans, and workers, were attacked, killed, and dispossessed in Jos. Shops were looted.Homes burned.Bodies left on the streets.Survivors fled in lorries back east. This was the first organised, ethnically targeted massacre of…
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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 evidence has now emerged confirming that what we suspected then was not conspiracy theory, it was Nigeria’s tragic, documented reality. Today, insecurity has metamorphosed from Boko Haram insurgency into a nationwide cancer of banditry, jihadist expansionism, pastoralist militancy, illegal miner–mercenary networks, arms smuggling syndicates, and…
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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 may send deadly mercenaries stronger than ISWAP/Boko Haram—Nigeria will pay the bill. He will push for arms sales to Nigeria. The US embassy already updates Trump daily; he does not rely on Nigerian media. Nigerian Christian leaders living false spiritual lives will be exposed. Many…
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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 Hope Uzodimma as the Renewed Hope Ambassador ahead of the national launch of the Federal Government’s Ward Development Programme. This was announced in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday. Governor Hope Uzodimma has…
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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 deep suspicion since 1966. The modern Nigerian state has never fully understood the Igbo quest for dignity. It has instead oscillated between denial, brutality, and propaganda, refusing to acknowledge the legitimate grievances that birthed IPOB and inflamed the Southeast. This work documents, with clarity and…
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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. Then I saw it again in discussions about Ukraine. And now, in the ongoing discourse surrounding the Nnamdi Kanu issue, it has become undeniable: many Nigerians who appear educated on paper are completely incapable of objective reasoning when confronted with narratives that challenge their emotions…
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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, a political class addicted to denial, and now a resurrected U.S. posture under President Trump promising military intervention “guns-a-blazing.” But beneath the noise lies a deeper truth, a truth Nigeria has refused to confront and America is exploiting: Nigeria’s insecurity crisis was never just about…
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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 betrayals, massacres, military invasions, political manipulations, and a half-century of unresolved trauma. The story begins long before Nnamdi Kanu, before ESN, before sit-at-home, before unknown gunmen. It begins in 1966, when the first cracks of hatred split the country apart. Back then, tens of thousands…
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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 fat on a dying system. Nigeria has reached that point. Not because her citizens suddenly stopped loving their country, but because the structure they were forced into has been collapsing for decades.Not because Nigerians are unwilling to coexist, but because those who insist on “unity…
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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 lies:its population figures. THE COLONIAL ROOT OF THE LIE: HOW BRITAIN RIGGED THE FIRST CENSUSES. Starting from 1911 all the way to 1952/53, the British manipulated Nigeria’s census figures with a singular objective: To manufacture a permanent demographic advantage for the Northern Protectorate. Why? Because…
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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 bush – they are people in suits, kaftans and uniforms; sitting in air-conditioned offices in Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Dubai and beyond. This is an attempt to pull back the veil. In 2022, the Nigerian government quietly admitted that 96 terrorism financiers had been identified by…
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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, or politicised. What was then a rising threat has since transformed into a coordinated ecosystem of violent extremism. The unchecked spread of religious fundamentalism, the infiltration of jihadist ideologies into rural and urban communities, and the subtle expansionist drive of armed groups across territorial lines…
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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 Africa presented before scholars, political leaders, various cultural and professional groups, traditional rulers and government leaders Osuagwu delves into the age long Ikwerre-Igbo identity conflict and the Aro roots of this crisis. He also explains why Port Harcourt and Anioma States were not created in…
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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 world; they are the lived realities of our republic. From time to time, I feel compelled to share some of these experiences, not to dramatize, but to awaken. Our democracy is sinking, and few institutions illustrate this decline more starkly than the judiciary. We complain…
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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, learning the same alphabet, reciting the same national pledge, and dreaming the same dreams. Go to secondary school the mixture is still there, though the ratio begins to shift. You start noticing that the black students are more in number, but the white students still…
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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 confront it. Sometimes, it sits quietly… waiting. And then, one day, history demands accountability. Today, Ndi Igbo stand on the brink of an existential fracture, one engineered systematically, welcomed foolishly, and fuelled shamelessly by our own elders and politicians, past and present. A people once…
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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 indifference. In a world where injustice thrives when ignored, silent leadership becomes an accomplice rather than a shield for the people. History consistently shows that injustice grows strongest in environments where leaders refuse to speak up. Oppression does not always begin with loud acts of…
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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 the “Old Owerri,” I am compelled to affirm the saying that. “Uwa Mbu Kà Nmà Dàà”! (Life In The Olden Days Was Better). It is, of course, ironical to say that life in those days was better than now that you have almost everything, color…
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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 of the South-East, a model of tech-driven, infrastructure-led, energy-secure, security-conscious development. I am not asking anyone to suspend criticism. I am simply saying: look deeper. Judge not only by perception but by evidence. Reality, quietly, is overtaking the noise. In recent months, debates around governance…
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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. This recognition does not come from sentiment; it comes from evidence. A Leader Who Understands His Roots, but Refuses Their Limitations For decades, Eastern political ambition has been hampered by historical setbacks and divisive narratives. Many leaders grew weary, retreating into isolationist thinking that limited…
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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 save Nigerian Christians. Policy swings are not uncharacteristic of this president, but the abrupt embrace of a “responsibility to protect” mindset from someone who has long claimed to oppose military interventions represents a remarkable pivot. Christians absolutely are being threatened and killed in parts of…
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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, listen: the violence ripping through our towns and villages is not a holy war between Christians and Muslims. It is terrorism, a brutal mixture of criminal gangs, marauding militias, religious extremists, land-grabbers and conquest-driven groups who kill, kidnap and terrorise for power, profit and impunity.…
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