events in Nigeria
`OH BIAFRA, HOW SAD!’ That is the title of one of my blog posts on Biafra. It lamented how Igbo youth are committing avoidable suicide. First it was MASSOB unsettling long suffering Ndigbo with their protests, sometimes peaceful and at other times too robust and rough. MASSOB did nothing to …
Nearly three decades ago I wrote a novel, Devils Playground, published by Longman Nigeria under their Drumbeat series. Part of what the Daily Times June 13, 1990, review by Dapo Adeniyi said of it was, `..Many faults with the Nigerian nation are discreetly tabulated here in fiction, faults which we …
I clocked seventy eight years of age a few days ago. I have lived in Nigeria for sixty nine of those years and I was already over eighteen when Nigeria gained independence. So I have been able to follow happenings in independent Nigeria for over fifty six years. And as …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Not long ago independence was easy to earn. The mighty Soviet Union disintegrated into many countries, some with populations of less than ten million. Later some countries earned it from suffering, persecution and by actually fighting for it. Kosovo is a recent example. East Timor, of a population of about …
This is an injunction from many Christian groups that met in Port Harcourt to all peace loving peoples of the world! It is as protest against blood-thirsty jihadist and expansionist slaughter by `Fulani Herdsmen’ of innocent Nigerian communities across Nigeria. Good idea! I began avoiding beef years ago not for …
Nigeria is currently faced with many problems. If it is not Boko Haram it is the plummeting price of petroleum, or tomato disease, or price of petrol, or unemployment, rape, kidnapping, Niger Delta Avengers, Fulani cattle or Massob and so on. They are myriad. Fulani cattle and their herdsmen have …
