PROSPECTS OF A NIGERIAN PRESIDENT OF IGBO EXTRACTION – By Law Mefor

Once was it said and more often should it be repeated in political calculus in Nigeria, Men of the future must not only understand their past but also the forces that forge the present. Nigeria has become a workshop of democracy and the forces that forge the nation are holding firm. And with wimpy, ineffectual […]

SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON IMO GUBER: BEFORE YOU CONDEMN THE APEX COURT.

I have read a lot of commentaries over the recent Supreme Court judgment declaring Senator Hope Uzodinma as the duly elected Governor of Imo State. Many have wondered how a candidate who came 4th in the election would be declared the winner by the Court. Some others have argued that the court at worst should […]

NIGERIA’S DECENT INTO TYRANNY – By Shaka Momodu.

Acid rain is falling, the green grasses of the rainforest are turning into yellow. The trees are falling, animals are scampering for safety. What is the source of this rain that carries with it death and destruction? The prophecy of old is becoming a reality. Anyone unlucky enough to be beaten by this rain […]

APC and INEC: The Emergent Threats to Democracy – By Shaka Momodu.

Nigeria’s democracy is facing arguably its worst form of bastardisation and debauchery in years. We actually thought that with all the reforms instituted over the years, we had moved past the era of ballot-box snatching and violence. But we are seeing a surging comeback of these anomalies. Under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration, […]

AMOTEKUN AND THE NORTH’S FEARS – By Lasisi Olagunju

(Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 13 January, 2020). Amidst ruffled feathers, south-western states of Nigeria took their destiny in their hands and launched their Amotekun on Thursday. The Yoruba people know that a madness that takes years figuring out how to be naked will never dance in the marketplace. They have seen the […]

IKWERRE PEOPLE NOT IGBO? (A PARADOXICAL WRITE-UP………..IKWERRE PEOPLE ARE IGBO).

Re: Stop Dragging Us: Ikwerre Is Not Igbo And That’s The Gospel Truth. This topic has been over flogged and I am here to end it all. Ikwerre is an ethnic group in River State in the old Eastern Nigeria but fraudulently said to be in the South South. A creation of the Fulani caliphate […]

BIAFRA: 50 YEARS AFTER – NO RECONCILIATION!

Paper presented at The Conference – MEMORY AND NATION BUILDING: BIAFRA 50 YEARS AFTER: A SOBER REFLECTION. By PROF. T. UZODIMA NWALA President Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) 1. Introduction. Before I thank the organisers of this Conference and pay my tribute to the Memory of my friend, late Major-General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, in whose Foundation […]

HALLIBURTON SCANDAL: THE OKIRO PANEL REPORT.

The full text of the report is as follows: Panel Members: Inspector-General of Police – Chairman. The Chairman, EFCC – Member Rep. of the NSA – “ Rep. of the DG, SSS – “ Rep. of the DG, NIA – “ TERMS OF REFERENCE 2. The Panel was imbued with the following terms of reference: […]

FRENEMIES: IRAN AND AMERICA SINCE 1900 – BY DOUGLAS LITTLE

For more than 100 years, the United States and Iran have engaged in an ambivalent relationship. Although the American and Iranian people have usually regarded each other as friends, their governments have frequently treated each other as enemies. Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, America and Iran have butted heads over issues as […]

15TH JANUARY 1970: 50 YEARS AFTER – BY EMMANUEL CHIGOZIE OSUCHUKWU

January 15th must be a date either cursed in Nigeria’s history or merely remarkable by coincidence. It all started on 15thJanuary 1966 when a group of young Nigerian army officers embarked on the terrible misadventure that culminated in the three years of Nigeria’s fratricidal war commonly known as the Nigeria-Biafra war. In the 1960s, a military […]