Category: OPINION

By Sonnie Ekwowusi Last week, precisely on the 13th of July 2021, some Nigerian soldiers in a shameless display of putrid military barbarism, swooped on the defenceless Igbo spare parts dealers at the popular Ladipo Market, Mushin Lagos and pointedly shot five Igbo traders there dead on the spot on the unfancied allegation that they (soldiers) bought a fake car engine from one of the traders at the Market a year ago and had come to the Market to have it replaced. While the soldiers were mowing down the traders…

Read More

By Tai Emeka Obasi. One of my greatest sources of pride as an Igbo man is having come from same tribe with Chinua Achebe. And God blessed me further with coming from same state with this literary iroko. Imagine what people from Ogidi, his community, had but seemingly didn’t and evidently don’t appropriately appreciate. This is a matter for another write-up. His novel, Things Fall Apart, is known by any literate or even semi-literate African and beyond. That great work of creative art mainly draws its flowing appeal from just…

Read More

By Femi Mimiko I read the press statement put out by DSS on its early morning invasion of Sunday Igboho’s abode and couldn’t stop wondering what was happening! How could a surprise armed attack by an agency of the State, on a man’s premises, and without a search warrant, constitute the appropriate response to his rascality? How many hideouts of bandits and sundry highly disruptive elements wreaking havoc and making a boast of slaughtering soldiers has the DSS stormed in similar manner? Aren’t we aware that some State governments sit…

Read More

By Tunde Olusunle, PhD Martins Oloja, Managing Editor of The Guardian, graciously donated his column today Sunday July 4, 2021, to publish my rejoinder to his backpage column of Sunday June 27, 2021. It is shared below. Inside Stuff With MARTINS OLOJA, Sunday July 4, 2021, Back Page Martins Oloja’s typically detailed and characteristically incisive piece in his Inside Stuff column in The Guardian on Sunday of June 27, 2021, practically took out from my mouth, an issue, which has agitated my mind in recent weeks and months. Titled, Nigeria…

Read More

By Duro Onabule Against Secession: A Testament To Yoruba Leaders And Promoters Of Oduduwa Republic I saw a video clip of a group of young Yoruba elites canvassing the creation of Oduduwa Republic. The spokesman claimed that they are not even interested in restructuring, that it is late in the day, but the outright creation of Oduduwa Republic. Carrying placards, they insist they are fed up with Nigeria and that Nigeria has been a setback for the Yoruba’s because in 1949 when Yorubas had the television, even when France has…

Read More

By Bola Bolawole “There be three things, which are too wonderful for me, yeah, four, which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon the rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wiped her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness” – Proverbs 30: 19 & 20. As the Acting Deputy Editor charged with the…

Read More

Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (left) and Late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Okukwu By Odumegwu Ojukwu “How does a son begin to assess, for posterity, the virtues or otherwise of his own father? In asking me my opinion about Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Owelle of Onitsha, you have, as it were, put me in a very tight spot – nothing I say can pass the test of objectivity. Here is a man, I have known all my life; a man I was brought up to give even more respect than to my father;…

Read More

By Ikechukwu Amaechi One of the most remarkable happenings in the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency is the rate at which Northerners give other Nigerians ultimatums. They dish out quit notices from the North or demand compensation for imaginary crimes. The Armageddon threats have skyrocketed since Buhari’s genocidal threat against Ndigbo on Twitter on June 2 and the backlash against his reference to the Igbos as “a dot in a circle” on Arise Television on June 10. Most of the incidents for which these ultimatums are given are contrived as anyone can…

Read More

By Lasisi Olagunju “Whatever the party holds to be the truth is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the party.” – George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four. We are entering the era of enforced silence. When you firmly fold your lips, you are not likely to hop into trouble. That is the next harbour the ship of Nigeria is sailing to – the port of compulsory silence. This is not about noisy Twitter and its first cousins and the ongoing desperate efforts to…

Read More