…Says Nigeria has become one big emergency national hospital. …Says Nigerians no longer recognise their country. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Hassan Matthew Kukah has told President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians no longer recognise their country which has been battered and buffeted by men and women from the dark womb of time. In his Easter message…
Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker has wondered how some terror leaders in the North, who are almost becoming household names have remained illusive for authorities to arrest. According to the former Kaduna central district lawmaker, those terror leaders even go about granting interviews to radio stations and newspapers in Hausa language but cannot be…
Peter Okoye of Psquare has warned Nigerian youth to choose the right candidate ahead of the 2023 general election. In a series of tweets on his page lamenting about the state of Nigeria, Peter warned youths against recycling old leaders. Sharing pictures of his view in Dubai, the singer wondered why Nigerian leaders could not…
It is the devil’s excrement. We are drowning in the devil’s excrement. —Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, Founder OPEC. All in all, I wish we had discovered water. —Sheik Ahmed Yamani, Oil minister, Saudi Arabia Ordinarily, finding a “treasure” tends to bring joy to the one who found it. Oil discovery has become Nigeria’s developmental Achilles’…
In the next 13 months, the country will be heading for another general elections. In this interview with journalists at his country home in Alor, Idemili South LGA of Anambra State, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Nwabueze Ngige spoke on the raging debate on rotation and zoning of offices, especially as it affects…
Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi has faulted the declaration of Fulani bandits as terrorists by thr federal government. The revered Islamic cleric who remains consistent in faulting the approach of fighting Fulani banditry and has been very vocal in telling the authorities that the use of force against criminal herdsmen cannot stop their acts…
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Monday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to reject the request of some notable Igbo leaders, demanding the release of the Indigenous People of Biafra’s leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The Forum stated that there were neither safe, constructive nor informed grounds for granting the request and advised the President not to…
Interestingly, Nigeria’s Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was among the three figures who received accolades and the endorsement of respondents across the African continent. The other two giants were Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa. It is as instructive as it is interesting to note that both Nkrumah and Mandela were students of…
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), working with over 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries across the world, pored over 11 million pages of financial documents, has exposed financial irregularities. The investigation penetrated the underbelly of the international financial system that provides cover for some politicians, government officials, businessmen in different…
This xenophobia is not only applied against the Hausa-Fulani northerners or the Yoruba south-westerns but also their closest cousins, the Niger-Deltans. This approach is based on three exclusionist strategies of Igbonomics. First, the market and product, and indeed the value-chain must strictly remain an Igbo affair. Second, other regions’ markets, their products and value-chains must be proportionately…
