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Saturday, 07 May 2016 01:09

Letter to Comrade Oshiomhole

Azu Ishiekwene “Very well, thank you for coming.” I know you will remember me by these words alone. But for readers who may not understand, Dear Comrade, let me explain. These words were taken from a joke I shared about six years ago at the LEADERSHIP Annual Conference and Awards, where Governor Adams Oshiomhole was honoured as Governor Of The Year. It’s a fable about the ambassador’s wife who, in spite of her best efforts to master protocol, still got snagged when it was time to say goodbye to the large number of guests at a dinner hosted by her…
Friday, 06 May 2016 01:37

The cost of national depression

Reuben Abati “I hear the World Bank says Nigeria is now the worst place to do business in the entire world.”“ I don’t believe it.”“I also hear that of the 15 fastest growing economies in Africa, Nigeria is no longer on the list.”“ I say I don’t believe that. And stop hearing bad things.”“We are not even in the top 10 of the World Top 10 oil producers anymore. Yet, we used to be No. 6.”“ I still don’t believe that.”“Inflation is now 13.2%, or well may be 12.8%.”“Story”“If you go to the market with N400 to buy pepper, that…
Chuks Iloegbunam "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” -Archbishop Desmond Tutu. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. VEXED voices have, in exasperation, been asking where Reverend Father Ejike Camillus Mbaka is. They are absolutely right who expect the priest to speak up. People should ask where Bola Tinubu is, the one who covets the feat of unknotting Pandora’s Box. People should be asking where many other previously vocal Nigerians are.…
Wednesday, 04 May 2016 01:05

Will Nigeria’s new Capital be old soon?

Tolu Ogunlesi A few weeks ago I sat in a taxi in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. “I think I’ve driven you before,” the driver said. How long ago, I asked. Two years, he confidently replied. And then a claim that stunned me: “I’ve still got your number saved.” Indeed he did. My name was saved as “TOLU TRANSCORP” — Transcorp being the city’s sole Hilton hotel, the center of Abuja’s social life, and the place where, two years ago, this driver took me. I had no such recollection, but his evidence sufficed. For me, that story perfectly illustrates Abuja’s sedate, small-town…
Onyiorah Paschal Chiduluemije The recent massacre of scores of fellow Igbo and brethren in our homeland by the invading and marauding Fulani herdsmen and the seemingly implicit endorsement of their cruelty by President Muhammadu Buhari’s government (judging of course by what could arguably be regarded as a mere formality condemnation on the part of the Presidency that reluctantly had to speak on this nasty development following public condemnation of his almost notorious indifference and/or taciturnity on matters concerning increasing Fulani herdsmen bestiality under his watch) is not just heart-rending, but also it is an indication that there is indeed a…
Folu Olamiti On a very cold Sunday morning, April 3, 2016 to be precise, at Salt Lake City in Utah, United States of America, I was fighting idleness by scanning my Facebook page when my eyes caught a post by Amina Angulu-Tswanya, one of the daughters of Ambassador Uriah Angulu. It was an ominous post that sent chilling sensations down my spine. Amina had posted on her wall a beautiful picture she took with her father, with both father and daughter beaming with smiles, and wrote: "Finally at rest with Jesus...My Hero.” I swallowed hard as I took a second…
Femi Fani-Kayode Last week I wrote an essay titled ‘The Road To Kigali’ which was widely published. The callous response of the northern governors to the horrendous events in Enugu has compelled me to write this contribution as something of a follow-up. These are difficult and troubling times and these are times that the truth needs to be spoken. I appreciate those that publish my contributions in my various columns because, in a country that hates to hear the truth and that finds it difficult to comprehend and grasp reality, that in itself takes courage. I also appreciate the increasingly…
Reuben Abati “Ol’boy, man don see something oh.” “Wetin you see?” “My eyes don see something. My ears don hear, and my mouth sef, I for talk something join.” “Talk make I hear” “No be dis Tiwa Savage and him husband matter? The husband wey say him wife offend am, he no gi am food, him wife dey form for house but him dey open leg for other men, and na another woman they give am edible catering, and the man come vex he wan jump inside river for Lekki-Ikoyi bridge” “Who the hell are you talking about?” “Tiwa Savage…
Friday, 29 April 2016 02:27

Cattle herdsmen as the new Boko Haram?

Reuben Abati “No matter how far the town, there is another beyond it” – Fulani Proverb There has been so much emotionalism developing around the subject of the recent clashes between nomadic pastoralists and farmers, and the seeming emergence of the former as the new Boko Haram, forbidding not Western education this time, but the right of other Nigerians to live in peace and dignity, and to have control over their own geographical territory. From Benue, to the Plateau, Nasarawa, to the South West, the Delta, and the Eastern parts of the country, there have been very disturbing reports of…
Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:03

Herdsmen and the killing field

Olusegun Adeniyi On 30th July, 2013, the parents of the ten Directorate of State Security (DSS) operatives killed two months earlier by the Ombatse cult in Nasarawa State staged a peaceful protest in Lafia where the then Vice President Namadi Sambo was due to commission some projects. The protesters were responding to the statement by the then DSS Director General, Mr. Ita Ekpenyong, that the service had ‘forgiven’ the criminals who killed the DSS operatives while on a legitimate duty. “Our children were sent on an operation to save other Nigerians, and they were not given any protection. We can’t…
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