CONFIRMATION CRUDITY. By Ray Ekpu

The 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made two decisions on confirmation hearings of ministerial nominees. The decisions were, one, that the President should submit his list of ministerial nominees within 30 days of the inauguration of the Senate. This decision was based on the public outcry in 2015 when it took about […]

THE FULANI OF NIGERIA

The Bible says “knowledge is power”. It also says “know the truth and it will set you free”. This is made all the more important given the fact that history is not taught in Nigerian schools. Let us join hands and walk down the beautiful path of knowledge, truth and history together. Our focus and […]

BUHARI IS A LAZY PRESIDENT. By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Like his first term, Buhari’s second term took off on a disappointing note. He didn’t hit the ground running. It took him months to appoint his ministers. Even so, some of the ministers appointed are thieves, looters, and despicable politicians. I have been following Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency since 2015. Based on his extensive overseas trips […]

JAJA OF OPOBO: THE SLAVE BOY WHO BECAME KING.

Born in Umuduruoha, Amaigbo, Imo state in the year 1821, his actual birth name is unknown, and also the identity of his true parents. The Igbo land in the 1800s was in chaos, as it saw Europeans invade the land for slaves, in exchange for firearms, tobacco, bullets and black slave raiders were invading different […]

WHILE WE ARE BUSY WRITING OPEN LETTERS TO OURSELVES.

Austin Okeke Writes. 24 August 2019 Greetings from South Africa and I hope this message finds you well and happy too. Our people are being killed and raped daily under our watch, our land is besieged and yet it appears that we are under a spell not to offer any form of resistance. All we […]

THE OWERRI DECLARATION: COMMUNIQUE OF THE 2019 IGBO NATIONAL SUMMIT ON THE PEACE, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALAIGBO AND HER NEIGHBOURS.

Held at Villa Gardens Hotel, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The first-ever IGBO NATIONAL SUMMIT was convened today, August 22nd 2019 by key frontline Igbo organisations and major stakeholders, with representatives of her Neighbors in attendance, to examine the grave state of insecurity in our region, under the banner – Peace, Security and Development of Alaigbo […]

NIGERIA AND THE CRIMINALS IN UNIFORM. By Shaka Momodu.

Have you watched the video of the killing of three policemen and a civilian by soldiers of the Nigerian Army? If you haven’t, please go and watch it. Have you read the statement issued after the fact by the acting Director of Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa in response to the first police statement […]

THE SOUR FRUITS OF SELF-DECEIT, PREVARICATION AND ABDICATION OF RESPONSIBILITY: HAVE WE REACHED THE TURNING POINT?

(1) Looking at the lot and reality of the Igbo in Nigeria since 1966, the First and Most important decision to be taken is that the Igbo and the wider Eastern Nigeria has no future in Nigeria. Unfortunately, for various reasons ranging from unreasoned sentiments, greed, extreme selfishness, ignorance and outright folly, this all-important Decision […]

HOW WOMEN WERE ALLOWED TO MARRY WOMEN IN AFRICA IN THE 1700s.

Africa has been studied by scholars all over the world intrigued by the many cultural and traditional practices that have several meanings and significant impact on people. While some practices have gone extinct due to exposure to westernization, others have been stopped for the dangers they pose to victims while many others have prevailed. Marry […]

A TREATISE ON DR CHIEF DOZIE IKEDIFE. By Senator Ikechukwu Obiorah

DR. CHIEF DOZIE IKEDIFE, Ikenga Nnewi. Thinker, Philosopher, Equal Rights Activist, Humanitarian, Altruist. A look at some of the issues Ikedife cared about. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” The above dictum by Socrates as reported by Plato in his Apologia, was innate in Ikedife when he was born on the 24th of August […]

BUHARI: A LEOPARD THAT CANNOT CHANGE ITS SPOTS

Our dear president Muhammadu Buhari just swore in his ministers and assigned portfolios to them. A critical look at the distribution of portfolios will reveal that notwithstanding the grave accusations of nepotism against the president in the past, he is not moved at all and will continue in the same trajectory in his purported next […]

DIGGING UP THE WEALTH IN THE SOUTH, BURYING THEM IN THE NORTH.

“The wretched nurseries of unceasing discord and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt….” – Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804. That was how Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of America and a former Treasury Secretary (equivalent to our Minister of Finance), described some of the nations of Europe when they were going through social, political […]

P&ID vs. NIGERIA: A REVIEW. by Reuben Abati

The report that a commercial court in the UK has ruled that Nigeria must pay a UK firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P & ID) a sum of $9.6 billion or have its assets in the UK to the tune of that amount forfeited has generated more than a little interest. For a country […]

MR. PRESIDENT IS NOT QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA. By Femi Aribisala.

Anywhere else, it would be an open and shut case that President Buhari is not qualified to be president of Nigeria. Nevertheless, he has been president for the past 4 years. The question that remains is this: will he continue to get away with violating the law? Or has he finally met his Waterloo? The […]

THE REAL REASON BEHIND THE TRIAL OF PROF. MAURICE IWU, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISION WHO IS ACCUSED OF ALLEGED MONEY LAUNDRY.

Proffesor Maurice Iwu, former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been released from Ikoyi Prisons after meeting the stringent bail terms granted him by the Federal High Court, Lagos, last week. The court granted him bail after he was docked last week Thursday before Justice Chuka Obiozor by Economic and Financial Crimes […]

THE BEATING OF EKWEREMADU AND THE STONES AWAITING OTHERS.

There is pain. There is anger. And there is collective rage in the land. Nigerians are empty of options and are seeking avenues for a purge; for catharsis. The season of retribution may be upon us sooner than we imagine. The physical abuse of former deputy senate president Ike Ekweremadu at an Igbo forum by […]

THE COLONIAL ORIGINS OF EXTRACTIVISM IN AFRICA.

There is no such thing as a ‘resource curse’ and Africans are no more corrupt than others. There have been protests in Dakar, Senegal after the broadcast of a documentary alleging financial impropriety by Aliou Sall, brother of President Macky Sall Late last month, the Senegalese government made it clear it was not going to […]

FACTS AND FIGURES OF THE VOLUME OF THE 400 YEAR TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE FROM AFRICA.

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those who were enslaved and transported in […]

ROCHAS OKOROCHA: PLAYING THE OSTRICH ON THE ROAD TO PERDITION. By Uche Igwe.

I wrote an article two days ago about the unfolding situation in Imo state especially as it relates to the allegations of corruption around the former governor Mr. Rochas Okorocha. It was quite short and did not capture the events in any details. As a columnist, I try to raise important issues for policy attention […]

PERSPECTIVE: MARGINALISATION AND THE UNIQUE UNCONSCIOUS POWERS OF WOMEN.

I am not a woman, but consciously or unconsciously, I have found myself in sympathy with the lot of women and always agitating for them over a number of issues. Playing the role of a woman protagonist is borne out of the sympathy I have for them as a grossly marginalized group who are not […]

REMEMBERING THE LION OF BIAFRA

How do I sum up 23 years in one page? I don’t know. How do I describe you? I cannot. Not in any depth. Not for anybody else – you were my husband, my brother, my friend, my child. I was your queen, and it was an honour to have served you. You were the […]

BREAKING!!! NUC DROPS WARNING – IF YOU ARE STUDYING ANY OF THIS COURSES IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES, YOU ARE NOT IN SCHOOL (SEE LIST)

List of courses that have not been accredited in Nigerian universities have been released – A certificate issued for those courses will be considered void – The university of Abuja has the highest number of unaccredited courses The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released a list of some courses that have not been accredited. The […]

ROCHAS OKOROCHA AND THE ANATOMY OF “LOOTOCRAZY” IN IMO STATE. By Uche Igwe.

The graphic exposition of the extent of looting that he masterminded is both surprising and sobering. His greed consumed him to the extent that he lost every sense of decorum and could not even do it intelligently. Imagine that he awarded different contracts amounting to N20 billion (including over N1.5 billion worth in one week) […]

AVERTING THE APPROACHING GALES. By Professor Sola Adeyeye

I stand before you today fully cognizant, as are many of you in this audience, that these days are not the best for Nigeria. At the risk of being called prophets of doom, we really have no choice than to admit that our country, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, lies in the paths of sundry […]

OKOROCHA: FOLLOWER-SHIP FAILURE By Ray Ekpu

13th August 2019 I had followed the altercations in the public space between Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State and his immediate predecessor Mr. Rochas Okorocha. Both of them had a bitter election fisticuff which ended in Mr. Ihedioha’s favour and Mr. Okorocha who had struggled valiantly to plant his son in law, Mr. Uche […]

THE DEEP STATE: HOW AN ARMY OF COVERT BUREAUCRATS ARE WORKING TO DESTROY THE TRUMP AGENDA.

In the United States, the term “deep state” is used to describe a conspiracy theory which suggests that collusion and cronyism exist within the US political system and constitutes a hidden government within the legitimately elected government. Some people believe that there is “a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance, […]

BUHARI, NIGERIA’S GREAT COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

The wise say two wrongs don’t make a right. But three wrongs make a right in Nigeria. First wrong: lunatic soldiers shot dead an innocent civilian along with three well-trained Intelligence Response Team policemen on national duty in Taraba State while the military hierarchy dipped the memories of the murdered Taraba Four in a cauldron […]

STATE OF THE NATION: How to resolve conflict to end national crisis.

It’s democracy versus Sharia ideology —Danjuma, Asemota, Lekwot, others. In a paper dated July 31, 2019, National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), parading prominent Nigerians including Elder Solomon Asemota, SAN; a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma (ret.); Prof. Joseph Otubu; Major General Joshua Dogonyaro (ret.); Archbishop Magnus Atilade; Dr. Kate Okpareke; Dr. Ayo […]

NWAFOR ORIZU WAS PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.

The mish-mash of Nigeria’s post-war history has permitted many sad revisions which in turn has made Nigerian historical studies and its statements therefrom to be lopsided, ethnic, and gnarled. We have tended in Nigeria to celebrate the worst of us, and have confined Nigeria’s true national heroes to the dustbin. Today, only in a place […]

GREED IS KILLING AFRICA.

And in 1993, Margaret Thatcher’s wealth was put at £9.5 million or roughly $6 million. Kamuzu Banda’s wealth was estimated at $320 million, that is 53 times the wealth of *Margaret Thatcher.* In other words, *Kamuzu Banda* of poorest of the poor Malawi was worth 5,300 per cent more than Margaret Thatcher of first world […]

LESSONS FROM GEORGE ORWELL ABOUT THE CURRENT PHASE OF BUHARI’S FASCISM. By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

I have immersed myself in the study of the ontogenesis and manifestations of fascism since Buhari started to bare his ferociously fascist fangs. One of the world’s most insightful writers on fascist totalitarianism is George Orwell. As he himself pointed out in his 1946 essay titled “Why I Write,” “Every line of serious work that […]

A CRITICAL LOOK AT PANT RITUAL CLAIMS IN NIGERIA By Leo Igwe

Last year, rumours started circulating regarding a strange form of thievery in Nigeria. In this case, people were not stealing cars or computers, cell phones or wallets, but pants, female pants. When I first heard about this pant theft and ritual, I thought it was a joke, or some made up stories by local comedians. […]

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT – WHERE IS THE “RESCUED” NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPER, ALHAJI HAMISU BALA WADUME?

The attention of the Nigeria Police Force has been drawn to the Press Release by the Nigerian Army dated 07 August, 2019, seeking to justify the unprovoked and unwarranted murder of three (3) Police officers and one (1) Civilian, and serious injury to other operatives, who were on legitimate criminal investigation activities to Taraba State, […]

OODUA GROUPS WRITE SULTAN OF SOKOTO

Open letter to the Sultan of Sokoto, Abubakar Said and the Fulani leaders August 08, 2019 The Sultan of Sokoto and Fulani Leader His Eminence Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad THE STATE OF THE NATION We write this letter to you considering your importance as the head of the Fulani people in Nigeria. You are also the […]

ANYTHING BUT JONATHAN RIGHT?

Our present national predicament reminds me of the last days of Socrates, the Greek wise man. After an ignorant mob condemned him to death, for urging the people to be rational in their beliefs and in their approach to life, his triumphant detractors gloatingly asked him to plead for his life, so that they might […]

SOWORE, A VAMPIRE STATE AND ITS DEAD WHALE. By Lasisi Olagunju

(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 5 August, 2019). In July 1968, a year into Nigeria’s civil war, one of the divisional commanders fired a note, from the war front, to the Head of State: “What really are we fighting for: to enliven a new class of the domineering type or to integrate the […]

NIGERIA: FULANI HERDSMEN, INCLUDING MOTIVATIONS, MODUS OPERANDI AND RECRUITMENT METHODS; RAIDS BY FULANI HERDSMEN IN SCHOOLS IN BENIN CITY OCTOBER 2016.

Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ottawa 1. Overview Sources indicate that Fulani herdsmen are nomadic pastoralists and mostly Muslim (France 30 Nov. 2016, 62; IEP 2017, 76). The same sources state that conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers, who in Nigeria are mostly Christians, increased in recent years (France 30 Nov. 2016, […]

FULANI HERDSMEN KILLINGS: MODUS OPERANDI, THOSE INVOLVED AND THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS.

The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the […]

NIGERIA’S GOLDEN GUINEA BREWERIES REOPENS OPERATION AFTER US$9.98m INVESTMENT.

Golden Guinea Breweries Plc, a beverage manufacturing company in Nigeria has re-opened its plant following a US$9.98 million (N3.6bn) cash injection to rejuvenate the brewery. According to a Beverage Industry News report, production operations in the firm were cut short in 2003 which has since then been engaging in efforts of bringing back the brewer […]

THE MARGINALISATION OF THE IGBO PEOPLE IN NIGERIA’S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SECTORS: WHAT IS THE WAY FOWARD.

1. Introduction The Igbo race continues to face enormous political and economic challenges since the instigated and imposed civil war. A plain glance at the economic and political development in Nigeria may be considered normal in terms of where the Igbo people stand politically, especially economically when compared to other ethnic nationalities. Indeed a cursory […]

PERSPECTIVE: BUHARI THE GREATEST LEADER FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA AFTER UTHMAN DAN FODIO. By Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo

You can call General Muhammadu Buhari all sort of names, but what I can assure you is that his popularity is increasing all over core Northern Nigeria and across the sahel region of West Africa. The Fulani with the brainwashed Hausa vassals will fight and die for him. General Buhari is one of the most […]

FROM THE HORSES MOUTH: Rare interview with the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu.

A must watch for our youths who lack in-depth information on our collective history.

ORJI KALU, APC AND THE IGBO QUESTION: By Obi Nwakanma.

By now, it should be clear to any Nigerian observer that the Igbo are ignoring President Buhari and the APC administration. As far as the majority of the Igbo in Nigeria are concerned Buhari is now inconsequential, and his party, the APC, irrelevant to the future and aspirations of the Igbo who very unambiguously made […]

OPTICS OF GUBERNATORIAL PERFORMANCE IN IMO STATE. By Val Igwebuike

The definitive electoral outcome of the 2011 and 2019 governorship elections have placed Imo State as the most politically savvy enclave in the South East in particular, and Nigeria in general. As an honor, the people of Imo State deserve the accolades. This is because in all these elections, Imo electorates were able to demonstrate […]

PERSPECTIVE: THE SO-CALLED AUGUST 5TH 2019 “REVOLUTION” IS A SCAM SET UP BY THE FORCES OF ONE-NIGERIA.

Be it known to all that British Intelligence and their local collaborators in Nigeria that desperately want to keep Caliphate One-Nigeria going by all means concocted this August 5th 2019 “Revolution” scrap as their strategy to distort, derail and take wind off the sail of the burgeoning Self-Determination Campaign that has reached its positive tipping […]

OKOROCHA AWARDED 12 ONTRACTS WORTH 20BILLION TO A BUBBLE COMPANY “ZIGREAT INTERNATIONAL” THREE MONTHS AFTER IT WAS REGISTERED- REPORT.

Documents obtained by TheCable has exposed how former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha awarded 12 contracts worth N20 billion to a strange comapny, Zigreat International Company Limited between November 15, 2013, and November 3, 2017, three months after the suspected bubble company was registered. The contracts were awarded to the company in obvious […]

IMN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A TERRORIST ORGANISATION? By Jideofor Adibe

Controversy has trailed the recent decision by the Federal Government to proscribe and designate the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) – also known as the Shiites- as a terrorist organisation. The Federal Government had filed an ex parte application before the court barely 72 hours after a protest by members of the group in Abuja […]

NIGERIA BURIES SOLDIERS AT NIGHT IN SECRET CEMETERY. By Joe Parkinson in the Wall Street Journal.

“While president says war against Islamist insurgency is won, army conceals toll in unmarked graves” MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA—At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State. After dark, the bodies of soldiers are covertly transported […]