Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) are the two most dominant political parties that do not need introduction in Nigeria. The two parties have woefully piloted the affairs of the supposedly giant of Africa since 1999 to a state of regrettable moribund it is today as a sleeping giant. The names of […]

Read More A disaster that replaced a tragedy, APC and PDP – Uzoma Ahamefule

“Conscious of this (Northern) hegemony and the fact that it does not have to be incompatible with the progress of Nigeria I have always argued that Northern hegemony per se is not the problem of Nigeria. It is the double jeopardy indicated in its abuse and wanton mismanagement that is the problem”. Whenever I write […]

Read More The Northernisation of 2023: DIALOGUE WITH NIGERIA By Akin Osuntokun

As Nigerians await the thrilling year of 2023 to see who succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock, Nigerians in Diaspora can make impactful contributions by blackmailing, arm twisting their wards to shun cultic partisanship and vote to elect the right Individual as president come 2023. Our votes are going to count and there is […]

Read More A CALL ON NIGERIAN DIASPORANS TO BLACKMAIL, INSIST AND ARM-TWIST THEIR WARDS TO VOTE WISELY AND ACCORDINGLY, OR STOP SENDING THEM MONEY.

On the 9 of June 1991, at the Iwuanyanwu Glass House, Ugwuorji, Owerri, elders of the State of the time with honour and integrity recommended that for equity, fairness and justice, democratic processes regarding to the office of the Executive Governor of Imo State shall be by rotation. Some notable elders from Owerri zone who […]

Read More Equity, fairness and justice: Mmanu akara di uto, onye rara, ibeya arara.

Only a world united by common goals can act on the challenges it faces, the Russian President said. The West and its allies are playing a “dirty game,” the prize in which is global dominance, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. However, the US and its allies are not safe from the consequences of their […]

Read More West can’t sit out crises it caused – Putin

For the first time in its modern democratic political history, Nigeria is experiencing a presidential candidacy that is supremely equipped to furnish the country with a transformational leadership. Since its independence in 1960, Nigeria has been described as having enormous potential, but the potential has remained largely unrealized due to poor leadership. If Nigeria makes […]

Read More Hitting the Right Notes: Connectedness as a Criterion of Governance.

Peter Obi’s enemies are very clever and audacious. They are determined to ruin him and the promise of his movement. Imagine, they appointed for him a certain Mr. John Ezeigbe Ughulu as his campaign coordinator for Lagos State. Lagos is a Yoruba state in the South-West. Yoruba don’t bear Ughulu. It is an Igbo name. […]

Read More Peter Obi And His Enemies

(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 24 October, 2022) The Washington Post of May 29, 1979 reported an exchange between President Idi Amin Dada of Uganda and an agent of a British money-printing firm. The Ugandan dictator asked the man to help him print two million Ugandan shillings worth of 100 shilling notes. The […]

Read More The warnings from Sanusi and Danjuma

Nigeria’s problems are essentially civilizational. Contrary to permutations that the 2023 presidential election will be significantly different from the past ones, it is still niche-carving, cult-following, and primordial sentiments that will produce Nigeria’s next president. The 2023 Presidential Election is upon us and surely it will be peculiar in many respects but much more will […]

Read More 2023: How niche, cult following and primordial sentiments will produce the next president ~ by Law Mefor

Slave trade in the U.S. remains a complicated period in history that continues to negatively affect Africans and African Americans alike. The transatlantic slave trade saw about two million people enslaved in the U.S. Most of them were Africans who were uprooted from their homes. Through their harrowing experiences on the ships, many of these […]

Read More These seven Black people made their wealth even before slavery was abolished – how?

He was slain with his legion for standing up to the king’s order to hunt down Christians in the region. For his valor and faith, St. Maurice was martyred in the Cathedral of the German city of Magdeburg with his name inscribed on the sculpture. He was born in Thebes, Egypt, in 250 CE where […]

Read More St. Maurice: the Black Roman General killed for refusing orders to persecute Christians

If we Christians keep insisting on this fallacy called One-man/One-wife, too many ladies will end up sleeping with different married men secretly while trying to make money and waiting for their own husband. Too many ladies will remain in their parents house till their 30s and some will live alone till their 40s. Most women […]

Read More EXPOSED: The Truth About Marriage and Marrying More Wives;

Hon Uche Onyeagocha is the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Owerri Zone, otherwise known as Imo East Senatorial District of Nigeria, in the 2023 general election. Recently, Onyeagocha, as usual, was in the news. But this time for his “Covenant” with his beloved Owerri People. Since he won his most contentious PDP […]

Read More Owerri Senate Seat: As Uche Onyeagocha Steps Out – By Henry Ekpe

𝑨 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐 “𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍” 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆. 𝑰𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒎𝒆… 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 […]

Read More The Fulani: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞

Julius Berger Nigeria Plc has emerged as ‘Nigeria’s Most Valuable Brand in the Building and Construction Services Category’ at the Top 50 Brands Nigeria Awards for the 7th consecutive time. At a ceremony to unveil the top 50 business brands in Nigeria last week in Lagos, Julius Berger, again retained its position in Nigeria’s engineering […]

Read More Julius Berger emerges Nigeria’s most valuable brand in construction.

“The judges have done their jobs and I am satisfied. Of course, I wished that the main suspects would be here before the judges. It’s not good that people kill people and stop the process of the development of a country without being punished!” – Mrs. Mariam Sankara, at the sentencing of Blaise Compaore, in […]

Read More The Ghost Of Thomas Sankara And Burkina Faso’s Fantasy Of A Romance With Russia

Nigeria and Africa’s most revered literary icon, Chinua Achebe, had in 2011 for the second time (the first being in 2004 under the regime of Olusegun Obasanjo) flatly refused to accept a Nigerian national honor the then regime of Goodluck Jonathan had tried to bestow on him on grounds that receiving such would amount to […]

Read More BUHARI’S NATIONAL DISHONOR AWARDS

We were once told not to approach a wellhead in Niger Delta. The reason was simple.There was an ongoing ‘operation’. I was working with an oil service company, we had already gone back to accommodation after working on the well. But a call from base necessitated we get to the wellhead again the same night. […]

Read More Oil theft in the Niger Delta: Very revealing expose.

The task before the incoming President of Nigeria is twofold: providing astute leadership and resetting the nation’s unworkable structure. In order words, the core challenges confronting Nigeria today are reducible to just two factors: parochial leadership, and dysfunctional structure. Both have left the country as a mere geographical expression. And as a former president, Chief […]

Read More ATIKU, OBI, TINUBU: WHO CAN RESET NIGERIA?

  U.S. foreign policy has prompted scenes of woe and horror worldwide and seriously jeopardized global peace and stability. From the end of World War II to 2001, the United States has initiated 201 armed conflicts in 153 locations, accounting for more than 80 percent of the total wars that occurred across the world in that […]

Read More Why a U.S. obsession with meddling in other countries seriously jeopardizes world peace

Read More How Putin holds Europe hostage over energy.

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We have been innundated with the word North – Northern Elders, Arewa Consultative Forum, Northern Governors Forum, etc. But really we are asking , “who are these Northerners?” Let us borrow a bit from History. When Obasanjo as President gave Non-Fulanis sensitive positions in his regime, the Sultan of Sokoto went with some Fulani irredentists […]

Read More WHO ARE THE REAL NORTHERNERS?

A constant debate between scientists and historians Historians and scholars from different eras have always debated about which year has been the worst for humankind and most of them point their fingers at AD 536, not only due to the massive number of deaths but also because of the many events that took place which […]

Read More Why Is AD 536 Considered the Worst Year in History?

Modern Russia’s first major foreign military campaign began seven years ago. It was a very different challenge to the current test in Eastern Europe FILE PHOTO: Russian soldiers, with Russian flag, are seen on armoured vehicle as they enter the base at the Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. ©  Bekir Kasim / Anadolu […]

Read More Syria was a rehearsal for the struggle between Russia and the West in Ukraine: Here’s why they are very different conflicts

Freemasonry is a fraternal organization of which members have included George Washington, Harry S. Truman and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Worldwide membership in the society totals over 3 million members, of which 1.1 million are in North America. But where did Freemasonry come from? Modern Freemasonry, as it is known today, is often considered to have […]

Read More The Origin of Freemasonry:The origin story of the word’s most secret society.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Paper presented at the 2022 General Assembly of the Archdiocese of Abuja, Sept 23, 2022 By Rev. Fr. George Ehusani, Executive Director, Lux Terra Leadership Foundation After the major scandal and embarrassment that attended the unfortunate massacre of 13 worshipers inside the St. Philip’s Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State, on Sunday August 6, […]

Read More A Critique of Fundraising Modalities in the Nigerian Churches Today.

September 22, 2022 The cabals including some members of Buhari’s extended family and friends are the powers behind the throne. President Muhammadu Buhari and members of the Aso Rock cabals are plotting to retain power in the Northern region in 2023, a presidential source has informed SaharaReporters. According to the source, Buhari and members of […]

Read More Buhari, Aso Rock Cabals Secretly Working Against APC Candidate, Tinubu, Supporting PDP’s Atiku – Presidential Source

Europe’s royal houses have shared close family ties for centuries. The British royals have more German roots than you might think. About 300 years ago, on August 1, 1714 — the English Queen Anne died. As a result, the German Elector George Louis of Hanover was proclaimed king of Great Britain in absentia.  He was […]

Read More How German are the British royals?

Although a lot of literature has been produced highlighting the strengths and benefits of religion, many have associated the following problems with religion: conflict with science, curtailing freedoms, delusion, claims of having the exclusive truth, fear of punishment, feeling guilt, immutability, instilling fear, internal conflicts, irrationality, justification of violence, limitation on the rights of women, […]

Read More What is the problem with religion?

In 2010, sociologist Phil Zuckerman published Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment. Zuckerman lined up evidence that the least religious societies also tend to be the most peaceful, prosperous and equitable, with public policies that help people to flourish while decreasing both desperation and economic gluttony. We can […]

Read More Imagine a world without religion II

Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? No religious bigotry, no “righteous” judgement, no cruelty “in the name of God,” no holy wars, no honor killings, and no shame in just being yourself. Truly, the world would be a better place without religion, wouldn’t it? Well, let’s try it out. Let’s imagine what the world would be […]

Read More Imagine a world without religion.

Religion is filling people with fear. Religion is one of the main reasons why people are afraid of living. … Religion is turning people against themselves. … Religion is turning people against each other. … Religion is keeping people in ignorance. Copied

Read More The Negative Effects of Religion on Society

British empire crimes in Africa, British empire crimes in India, British crimes in Ireland, British crimes in Australia, British empire crimes in Kenya When the news broke that the queen of England was ill, Ms. Uju Anya, a lovely anti-racist African living in the USA, responded to the news via Twitter, saying: “I heard the […]

Read More British colonial crimes. 15 books you need to read.

Do you know that an Igbo man planned and proposed a modernised self-governed Nation/Empire/Republic of Igbos 39 years before the birth of Nigeria as a country? His name is JAMES AFRICANUS BEALE HORTON (1835–1883). He published and sent the British government his proposal titled, “The EMPIRE OF THE EBOES/HACKBOUS/HEEBOS/IBOES/IGBOES/EGBOES, with the Requirements Necessary for Establishing […]

Read More The First Man to Propose a Modern Independent Nation of Igbos in 1865

Firstly, when CIA recruits candidates for work as undercover, overseas operatives, they are seeking out individuals who, for the most part, ALREADY possess the mental traits required of a successful spy. More specifically, the recruit must demonstrate that he is supremely self-confident, observant, inquisitive, analytical, morally flexible, cool under pressure, comfortable working alone and, perhaps, […]

Read More How are CIA agents trained to think?

Chief Martin Agbaso was universally acknowledged as the winner of the governorship election in Imo State on April 14, 2007. The 2007 election was midwifed by the honorable and gentlemanly Governor of the state at the time HE Chief Achike Udenwa of Orlu zone, who was poised to reciprocate the gentlemanly dispisition of Owerri zone […]

Read More The continued relegation of Owerri zone: The genesis.

FLASHBACK PERSPECTIVE A Case of Self-Evident Truth The late American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously reminded all of us that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’. Dr King’s admonition is instructive particularly for those who under the cover of darkness or in the seclusion of their homes or offices, […]

Read More Owerri zone: The Imo Gubernatorial Election Fraud against Agbaso. The Gumption and Glory

Kathy and Ross Petras We all have that little voice in our heads that weighs in on everything we do or say. If we let it, it can make us feel demoralized, belittled or just less capable. The end result is that we wind up not accomplishing what we want.  It’s never easy navigating challenging […]

Read More Want to sound and feel more confident? Ditch these 11 phrases from your vocabulary, say psychologists

German writer Esther Villar In her book “The Manipulated Man” that caused outrage and hostile criticism from women explains how women since the earliest times have manipulated men and turned them into their slaves, having pretended to be the oppressed sex, while in the real sense, they are the oppressors. She explains how a woman […]

Read More THE SLAVERY OF MEN BY WOMEN

“The meeting of minds between Sir Lugard and the leaders of the Sokoto Islamic Caliphate was not surprising for, in practice, there were no emotional or philosophical differences between imperialism which Lugard championed and the feudalism in Northern Nigeria before British colonial rule.” – An unpublished work Britain operates a parliamentary democracy which is subordinated […]

Read More Queen Elizabeth’s Colonial Legacy In Nigeria

The vox-pop: Should Africans hold the late Queen Elizabeth  responsible for the evils of colonialism, neocolonialism and apartheid? What’s your view on the tweet by Prof. Uju Anya of the Carnegie-Mellon University? The death on Thursday of United Kingdom’s  longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II,  has given a new impetus to the quest by  Nigerian […]

Read More Nigeria-Biafra War: Queen Elizabeth II On Posthumous Trial

I have always said it that the core of the Igbo political class are not fit to represent the region in National politics. Most of them were mostly hungry and struggling before they joined politics. Very few who had something meaningful doing were barely well educated before joining politics. All these factors impacted heavily on […]

Read More The Igbo Political Class: The Quest To Restore Her True Identity.

Friday Sep 16, 2022 King Charles III is being urged to step down and let his son Prince William take the throne within two years. The new monarch, who ascended the throne at the age of 73 last week, has been warned by the royal commentators that His Majesty should gear up for a short […]

Read More King Charles III urged to abdicate throne in two years

Omenụkọ was the first Igbo published novel in 1933. It was written by Pita Nwanna. The writer did not go to any primary school, college or University. He was a carpenter. He learnt art of writing by attending Sunday School at Methodist Church, Ụzụakọli. In 1933, Omenụkọ won several awards, representing indigenous African Literature. Pita […]

Read More Omenuko: The first Igbo published novel in 1933