Month: May 2019

DONS EZE BETWEEN MAY 29 AND JUNE 12 May 29 and June 12 represent two different perspectives in Nigeria's checkered journey to democracy. One was glorious, while the other one ...

BIAFRA AS PROTEST AGAINST INJUSTICE May 30 is historic. May 30 is significant. May 30 is memorable. May 30 is Biafra Day. On May 30, 1967, Biafra was proclaimed as ...

DONS EZE TWENTY YEARS OF NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY: HOW FAR, SO FAR? When Nigeria bade farewell to military dictatorship in 1999, we all looked forward with high hopes and expectations that ...

Fulani herdsmen are a special group in Nigeria. They are privileged people. They are precious and very dear to the Federal Government of Nigeria. Fulani herdsmen are not allowed to ...

Truth is always bitter and those who feel threatened by the revelation of any such truth are usually not comfortable, and they will try to do everything possible to cover ...

When former Zamfara State Governor, Sani Yerima, now a Senator, came up with Sharia law in 2000, which was quickly embraced by most state governments in the North, many people ...

If and when an epithet will be written for Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Governor of Rivers State (2007-2015), Minister of Transportation, (2015-2019), it will be: "Here is a man who sold ...

The prompt response by the Enugu State Executive Council in addressing issues raised by the Nigerian Federal Government regarding its plans to downgrade the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, needs ...

OSIBANJO AND HIS QUICK FIX THEORY When I hear that the Vice President, Yemi Osibanjo, is a Professor of Law, I always get confused. Also, when they say that Osibanjo ...

The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Burutai, is an officer and gentleman. Since he was appointed to the exalted position of head of the Nigerian Army in ...