I was amused to watch Alhaji El Rufai, a Fulani, governor of Kaduna state whose Southern Kaduna Christian citizens are being butchered by Fulani herdsmen, both local and foreign, for reasons they call `reprisal attack’ for the killing of Fulani herdsmen, both local and foreign, after the 2011 presidential elections, …
The television advert says, `there is a new place they are all talking about, Africa.’ A new place? Africa, THE DARK CONTINENT is certainly not new. It is as old as the other continents. An African National Congress song was titled, `Nkosi Sikelele Africa’ – God bless Africa! But black …
God Save Us From Darkness! Nigeria, a country with the largest economy in Africa and the most populous black nation in the world with about two hundred million citizens, by 1999, the beginning of civilian rule, was generating 1750 megawatts of electricity which by 2016 had risen to a paltry …
Donald, United States of America president elect, congratulations. You have proved the pundits, the analysts and the pollsters wrong. You are going to be the leader of the world – forget the aspirations of Russia. No doubt however much you detest Obama and his policies you have to learn from …
Of all the terrorist organisations around the world including ISIS, Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda, our own home grown terrorists, Boko Haram, seem to have done something unheard of. They have actually released twenty one of their captives, school girls they kidnapped from a school in Chibok over two years ago …
Ten years after I left home I was on my way back, on holidays. I do not quite remember whether I came by train or by road but it was more likely by train since my father worked as a railway carpenter. What I remember vividly was that the last …
There is an Igbo saying that a cow that belongs to the public or village as a whole usually dies of hunger. The simple reason is be that each person will expect the other person to feed the cow and as a result the cow goes hungry. That adage fits …
Man’s inhumanity to man! In the Middle East, the cauldron of hate from Biblical times, we are daily being shown that man’s capacity for wickedness, brutality is limitless. A whole nation called Syria is being razed to the ground and humanity is helpless to intervene. The final act of the …
His real name was V. C. Brown but students had nicknamed him V. C. Bobus. He was a blond, tall and fat bachelor usually dressed in white short-sleeve shirt on khaki shorts. He taught us Latin and was generally disliked by the students. I simply did not like Latin and …
I used to play tennis. Well, sort of! When I learnt to play the game I was in secondary school in Zaria. Then we called the racquets bats. Bats were simply shaped from slabs of wood into things that resembled oversized table tennis bats with longer handles. So my tennis …
