events in Nigeria
Yesterday I watched former Nigerian Senator Dino Melaye talking gibberish about the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine. He said Nigerians are receiving an AstraZeneca vaccine rejected by Europeans because of its low level of potency! The man actually believes covid-19 is real even though he is from a state whose youthful governor …
The story of banditry in Nigeria reminds me of the famous saying that you reap what you sowed. There is an allegation that those ruling us now were so desperate for power that during President Jonathan’s rule they, the powers that be in the north, recruited thousands of Fulani mercenaries …
In 2009 a man called Yusuf, leader of a radical Islamic group who was under arrest by the police, was shot dead in broad daylight by a policeman, an event that went viral in the social media worldwide. Till today nobody has told us what punishment the policeman received or …
Today I read from the social media that Professor Sagay is advocating for every Nigerian to be armed. At first I thought that it is one of those fake news in which some mischief makers write rubbish and ascribe them to some innocent people. This thinking is because this Professor …
That was the question a Permanent Secretary in one of the Ministries in Dar-es-Salaam asked me when I was introduced to him as a Biafran in Etiennes night club a few days after I arrived from London. The person who introduced me was Major Mbita whom I met almost on …
Incredible! That was what a supposedly close friend of a man, Kene, who had gone to stay a day or two in his village to attend the funeral of a relative told him. And what was he to take off? His mask! Kene was one of those residents of Lagos …
Why is Nigeria refusing to face the reality that it has a problem. And that problem is its structure. This country was put together into a three region union by Britain for its own economic purposes. Their idea was that the feudal north would control the east and west. Everything …
Ndi uwe ojii abughi nwanne mmadu! Yes, that is a common Igbo saying. Police is nobody’s friend. In Igboland people have always been suspicious of the police. ndi uwe ojii, the black uniform people. The uniform has varied from black on black to light blue on black but the people …
In 2016 I wrote two posts, ‘Who Will Save Nigeria From Ghost Workers?’ and ‘Ghosts Everywhere’. On 23rd April, 2016, in Vanguard newspaper, the Bureau of Public Enterprises said they saved Nigeria N185 billion naira by weeding out 65,000 ghost workers. That same month in another Vanguard newspaper on 20th …
Five hundred years ago Europeans were in competition all over the world discovering and conquering new territories for their monarchs. The Portuguese, the Spanish, the British, in particular, were most active sailing westwards and later round the Cape of Good Hope towards Asia for cloves and wealth. But it was …
