The other Nigeria we have created

No better time exists, to tell the truth than in a moment where silence in the face of glaring injustice is a politically correct choice. This moment is one of such times.

Igboho and Nigeria’s shaky unity

IF there is one thing that has again advertised Nigeria as a dangerously fragile country, it is the fallout of the eviction notice issued to herders to leave Igangan community in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State by the Akoni Oodua of Yorubaland, Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho.

The Fox And The Cock In Contemporary Nigeria

The story of “How the fox lost its fright of the cock” or “How the cock foolishly made itself the fox’s delicious meal” was one of the “tales by the moonlight” that must have been told in millions of Yoruba households in those days.

Nigeria: A country that lives in denial - Sunday Onyemaechi Eze

NIGERIA is a country living in denial of its division, challenges, and troubled chequered history. Anybody who lays claim to the fact that the country is united now is living in illusion or is outrightly delusional.

The aborted food blockade

THE last time we heard about food blockade in Nigeria was over 50 years ago at the height of the Nigerian Civil War.

Like Obasanjo to OPC, Buhari orders shoot-on-sight on anyone with AK47 in bushes

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that anyone found wielding an AK47 assault rifle be shoot at sight, a development many have compared to a similar order given by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo during his tenure (1999-2003) as president, against the Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, members.

The Terror Factory — Gbenro Olajuyigbe

Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zanfara State, is the fifth school after the schools in Chibok, Borno State, Dapchi, Yobe State, Kankara, Katsina State and Kagara, Niger State where hundreds of students will be carted away as booties of war in Nigeria’s recent tragic history of terrorist violence.

Either security or nothing - Sunny Ikhioya

WE can make the best budget preparation, plan the best execution and even make the best promises on earth, but all of these will not materialise unless we take care of our security.

Justice begets peace - Rotimi Fasan

What kind of social or political engineering can be executed in a country that has been set adrift by politically-motivated ethnic tension? Nigeria is today being pulled in different directions by forces that may seem beyond it but which are actually within manageable limits if only those invested with the authority to act will do just that.

If Britain Could Exit The EU…

IF Britain could exit the European Union, as it did close to the midnight of 31st January 2020; if Eritrea could exit Ethiopia; if Southern Sudan could exit Sudan, then, there is nothing that says nations cannot exit nations.

Politicians Versus The People -Chief Adeniyi

Whenever the history of the eventual collapse of this country is written Nigeria’s commercial/mercenary politicians will surely take the lion’s share of the blame.

Is our democracy working? - The New Fabián Society

IF one lesson comes clear from 2020 it is that democracy is in deep crisis in Nigeria where questions abound about the state of the social compact between the people and those who lead and personify the state.

From Ife to Shasha - Francis Ojo

TODAY, March 5, again represents one more journey in the humiliation of the Yoruba nation by the Fulani.

Raging Nigerian war: Fulani against the rest

Sir, there are many nationalities in the cooked-up country called Nigeria; non likes to take over others’ land. ONLY the Fulani want to take over other people’s land. So where is Fulaniland so that we too can go and live there? Thanx” 

Eviction Orders Here And There Will Make Us Refugees In Our Own Country, By Fredrick Nwabufo

It takes just a moment of indignation to destroy; to cast down and cast out. It is easier to destroy than to build. And what is broken sometimes cannot be put together again.

If Only They Would Listen To Ortom - Ikyur

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State is not the usual Nigerian politician. He’s not given to pretensions. And he does not massage anyone’s ego.

The North and Her Bandits

If the truth must be told, the perplexing insecurity situation in the northern part of Nigeria will remain a nagging problem for a very long time without a change of attitude and sincere commitment to routing the elements behind terrorism and banditry on the parts of security agencies, national leadership and leaders in the region. 

Nigerian Bandits Have Their Cake And Eat It - Azu Ishiekwene

The fight against terror in Nigeria has been a theatre of the absurd.

It’s not altogether a bad thing for the North to secede from Nigeria - Ex-presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba

Former Presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba says with all that the North has going for it, it will not be a bad thing for the region to secede from Nigeria.

Sheikh Ahmad Gumi: Fulani Jackass, Nincompoop

Known for his babbling, yammering, claptrap, mumbo jumbo, Gumi represents Fulani chowderheads ruling Nigeria. Gumi is a definition of assault on reason and civilization.