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IPOB/Yoruba nation: Let us separate peacefully
At one point or the other every known political leader in this contraption created by British commercial interest and greed, has described Nigeria as a mistake, a mere geographical expression, a marriage of contradictions, a clog in the…
Akpabio and Niger Delta militants
"I came in peace and in peace, I leave you!" These were the words of the Minister of Niger Delta and supervising Minister of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Senator Godswill Akpabio, shortly after taking the wind…
JAMB Registrar: The secret of his template
MONOLOGUE
Following the defence of the budget of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) by Professor Ishaq Olanrewaju Oloyede recently, two questions arose, for which some Nigerians are eagerly seeking answers.…
Sanwo-Olu and Makoko chess champion
About a month ago, we discovered a boy with Spastic cerebral palsy being mocked by his peers in the slums of Makoko where we had a chess training program for children without access to education, we brought him into our training center and…
Ebonyi destiny, peace and politics
This past month has been, in the assessment of many, the most turbulent and challenging period in the history of the almost 25 years old Ebonyi State. It was the longest one month as the vile and unjustifiable indiscretion of some…
Bayond Katsina, Zamfara Governors’ romance
The Governor of Katsina State, Hon. Aminu Bello Masari, was in Gusau this afternoon. He was specially chosen by His Excellency, Dr. Bello Mohammed to commission the newly re-modeled State Legislature named after the late Chairman of the…
Interviewing President Buhari
I have been privileged to interview quite a number of world leaders in the course of my journalism career. These include President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Ketumile Masire of Botswana, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Commonwealth…
Tinted glass: The IGP’s legality
For the avoidance of doubt, the IGP does not make laws for the Nigerian People. The IGP's pronouncements do not constitute laws in a constitutional democracy like Nigeria.
ONLY the members of NASS are empowered by our constitution to…
Fulanisation: North and South stereotype
Fears of “Fulani domination” have endured since Nigeria’s founding but, more than ever before, there is now an insanely unhealthy obsession with the Fulani in Nigeria’s South. The Fulani are not just routinely reviled with genocidal…
Constitution Review: Another game of deceit and distraction
It is curious that millions of otherwise educated people can be easily fooled and dragged into the on-going theatricalities and inanities of a so-called jamboree deceitfully tagged Constitution Amendment Panorama. What are they amending?…