Month: June 2019

THE IGBO AND THE NIGERIAN PROJECT I lament for my people, the Igbo. We are sick, indeed very sick. But some of us do not even know that they are ...

'ON ABURI WE STAND' Between January 4 and 5, 1967, the small town of Aburi in Ghana played host to the then Nigerian military leaders who went there to seek ...

STRONG PERSONALITIES VERSUS STRONG INSTITUTIONS Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and in recent years, Napoleon Bonaparte, Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, etc., these were powerful men, strong personalities who wielded ...

LIKE SOCRATES, LIKE FESTUS Once upon a time, many centuries ago, there was a man called Socrates, a Greek, an Athenian citizen. Socrates was a social critic. He would go ...

DONS EZE WHAT IF I DON'T EAT BEEF OR COW MEAT? Those who read economics, the economists, have taught us that the price of every commodity is determined by market ...

NIGERIA IN THE INDEX OF GLOBAL PEACE For Nigeria to be occupying an abysmal low position of 148 out of 163 countries in the world, ranked according to their level ...

LETTER TO HER EXCELLENCY, AISHA BUHARI Your Excellency, I write to congratulate you on your new position as "First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria". This was after four ...

NOW THAT OUR PRESIDENT IS IN CHARGE In the past four years, they had treated us with the theatre of the absurd. They had kept telling us that there was ...

WHEN A COUNTRY LOSES ITS SENSE OF JUSTICE Nigeria is a country that was founded on injustice, built on injustice, and sustained by injustice. It is a country where everybody ...

THEY CELEBRATE JUNE 12, WE CELEBRATE MAY 30 June 12 and May 30 are two important dates in the history of Nigeria. The two dates represent two different events in ...